{"id":2575,"date":"2009-08-02T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T05:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2009-08-01T20:05:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T03:05:23","slug":"tokyo-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/tokyo-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0930693043\/rpcman target=_new><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tokyo-observer.JPG\" alt=\"tokyo observer Leighton Willgerodt\" title=\"tokyo observer Leighton Willgerodt\" width=\"234\" height=\"339\" align=left><\/a> <I><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0930693043\/rpcman target=_new>Tokyo Observer<\/a><\/I> by Leighton Willgerodt is a 20-year old book with timeless information about Japan. The writing style is very conversational and you may end up reading the whole thing in one sitting. The &#8220;chapters&#8221; are reprints from newspaper articles Willgerodt wrote in the late 1980s about Japanese culture, customs, and language. He had lived in Japan for more than a decade at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The last third or fourth of the book is about other parts of Asia. I didn&#8217;t find it as interesting, probably because I haven&#8217;t lived in those areas. The first hundred pages or so are fantastic though. I highly recommend this to someone going to spend an extended period of time in Japan. <I>Tokyo Observer<\/I> is a fun, quick read that will keep you entertained as it prevents you from making some common <I>gaijin<\/I> mistakes. You&#8217;ll pick up more than a few Japanese words along the way too.<\/p>\n<p>If your library doesn&#8217;t have it you can pick it up through the above link for about a dollar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Observer by Leighton Willgerodt is a 20-year old book with timeless information about Japan. The writing style is very conversational and you may end up reading the whole thing in one sitting. The &#8220;chapters&#8221; are reprints from newspaper articles Willgerodt wrote in the late 1980s about Japanese culture, customs, and language. He had lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[44,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}