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Pachinko Man: The Life and Meaning of Pro Wrestling Legend Rikidozan
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Dropping into the world of KPop Demon Hunters and the "Korean wave" is the first English biography published in the West of professional wrestling superstar Rikidōzan
He was Japan's biggest celebrity - second only to the emperor. But his public image was a lie.
Pachinko Man reveals the man behind the myth, and the forces that shaped him.
As he pummeled American bad guys in the ring in the 1950s, Rikidōzan was a cultural phenomenon and a symbol of the defeated Japan's restoration of postwar p...
He was Japan's biggest celebrity - second only to the emperor. But his public image was a lie.
Pachinko Man reveals the man behind the myth, and the forces that shaped him.
As he pummeled American bad guys in the ring in the 1950s, Rikidōzan was a cultural phenomenon and a symbol of the defeated Japan's restoration of postwar p...