Tokyo Junkie

Home of Robert Whiting, best-selling author and journalist

Category: Kirkus Reviews

  • You Gotta Have Wa

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    by Kirkus Reviews (Apr 1, 1989) Eye-popping report on Japanese baseball by a journalist based in Japan.  In Whiting’s The Chrysanthemum and the Bat (1976) he provided a hilarious look at the history and customs of Japanese besoboru, here, he zooms in on American major-leaguers who play for big bucks in the land of the rising sun. Most…