Try Saying You're Alive!: Kazuki Tomokawa in His Own Words

A vivid account of life on the margins and Tokyo's 1970s underground culture from a Japanese folk legend

Tokyo in the 1970s was a magnet for young musicians, poets and painters. Among them was Kazuki Tomokawa, a prolific singer-songwriter from Japan's northern provinces, whose guttural vocals and incisive lyrics earned him the unofficial title of "screaming philosopher."
The stories in this memoir--originally published in 2015 in Japan and now appearing as the first English translation of Tom...