EPISODE · Jun 22, 2021 · 11H 50M
Tokyo Junkie by Robert Whiting
from Savor This Breakthrough Full Audiobook — Perfect Between Meetings. · host Robert Whiting
https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/70881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tokyo Junkie Author: Robert Whiting Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins Release date: 06-22-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 161 ratings Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/70881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tokyo Junkie Author: Robert Whiting Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins Release date: 06-22-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 161 ratings Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.
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