Counter-Kabuki: Sixty-Seven Playlets on the Silly Side of Life in Japan

Counter-Kabuki is a collection of improbable conversations, inspired by newspaper accounts of the unimaginably goofy things that have happened (and still happen) in Japan. Half a lifetime of living there persuaded the author that you have to work really hard to have fun in that odd-but-familiar land; this book is a culimination of those labors.