Alone in Japan
A Journey to the Future
$42.75
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2026
Summary
No sex. No kids. No future?
When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later, the country was still a sign of things to come – but, he began to realize, it was no longer a beacon. It was a warning.
This book offers a unique portrait of life in contemporary Japan, from the quiet of its fur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241640913 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241640911 |
| Author: | Tom Feiling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 576g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 164mm x 243mm |
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Critics Review
A beautiful, measured meditation … This, Feiling points out, is our future too … All the more reason or us to take a close interest in what works – and doesn’t in Japan – Christopher Harding * Spectator *
Alone in Japan is an excellent and humane piece of reporting … [it] gives a compelling sense of Japan today. Feiling is a sympathetic, fair-minded interviewer, and his descriptions of urban and rural Japanese life are atmospheric and evocative … A sensitive and thoughtful book * TLS *
- - Praise for Tom Feiling * - *
It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling’s future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written a vivid, argumentative, arresting book * The Sunday Telegraph *
Feiling is a brilliant reporter, lucid, unflinching, morally engaged, and with an occasional deadpan sense of humour * Independent *
The best British travel writers like Norman Lewis or Bruce Chatwin give the reader more than simple travellers’ tales. Feiling is of their company … a brilliant, penetrating and highly readable account – Robert Carver * Spectator *
I’ve read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them. It’s clear, sharp and solid. Very well told * Evening Standard *
Tom Feiling
- Tom Feiling is a writer and journalist.
- His celebrated books include:
- The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World
- Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Colombia
- The Island that Disappeared: Old Providence and the Making of the Western World
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