Tokyo Junkie

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  • BBC ON NAOMI OSAKA

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    https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/57841166 Tokyo Olympics: How quiet rebel Naomi Osaka is changing Japan By Mike HensonBBC Sport Last updated on2 hours ago2 hours ago.From the sectionOlympics Naomi Osaka tells a story. It is from Florida, where the world’s best young tennis players congregate and compete. Osaka, aged about 10, was getting ready for a match at the…

  • SEX, BOOZE AND THE OLYMPICS (NIKKEI ASIA)

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    OPINION Sex, booze and the Olympics Wild merrymaking is as much a part of the games as sportRobert WhitingJune 12, 2021 05:00 JST Australian Dawn Fraser after splashing her way to victory in the 100-meter freestyle event, pictured on Oct 19, 1964; she became famous for her run-in with the Tokyo police.   © Bettmann/Getty Images…

  • TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT REVIEW OF TOKYO JUNKIE

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    Travel|Book Review Olympic success A sports journalist observes a changing Tokyo By Lesley DownerTokyo Olympics Athletes Village, Japan, 1964|© The Asahi Shimbun via Getty ImagesJune 18, 2021Read this issue IN THIS REVIEW TOKYO JUNKIESixty years of bright lights and back alleys … and baseball384pp. Stone Bridge Press. £14.99.Robert Whiting When Robert Whiting arrived in Tokyo in…

  • JAPAN FORWARD TOKYO JUNKIE

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    [ODDS and EVENS] ‘Tokyo Junkie’ Juxtaposes Great Baseball Stories With Rich Collection of Memories from Author’s Life “It was baseball, a quintessentially American sport, that gave me my first true connection to Japan and its people,” Robert Whiting reveals. Published 16 hours ago  on June 16, 2021 ByEd Odeven Yomiuri Giants legends Sadaharu Oh (left) and Shigeo…

  • Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan Book Break: Tokyo Junkie 5/12/21

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  • From The Desk of 43

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  • RADIO EUROPE INTERVIEW

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    https://player.fm/series/talk-radio-europe/robert-whiting-tokyo-junkie-with-tres-bill-padley

  • LITERARY REVIEW ON TOKYO JUNKIE

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    general tim hornyak An American in Japan Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball By Robert Whiting (Stone Bridge Press 384pp £14.99) Picture the scene. Early 1960s Tokyo at a late-night bar called Club 88. You might spy owner Alonzo Shattuck, a former American intelligence agent who tracked North Koreans…

  • JAPAN TIMES ARTICLE ON TOKYO JUNKIE

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    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/02/books/tokyo-junkie-robert-whiting/ BOOKS ‘Tokyo Junkie’: Robert Whiting recounts a lifelong addiction to his adopted city BY MARK SCHREIBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Tokyo Junkie, by Robert Whiting 384 pages STONE BRIDGE PRESS SHARE May 2, 2021 In 1962, the year Robert Whiting arrived in Japan as a 19-year-old soldier from small-town America, the United States was at the peak…

  • SCMP REVIEW OF TOKYO JUNKIE

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    https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3130454/tokyo-junkie-robert-whitings-eyewitness-account-how Post Magazine / Books Review | Tokyo Junkie: Robert Whiting’s eyewitness account of how Japan’s capital has changed in the past six decades Robert Whiting’s personal narrative of life in Tokyo offers a compelling study of the society in with which he has thrown his lotHe approaches many topics, among them salarymen, the yakuza, nightlife and the…