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Tokyoing: Asia -- Fascinating for What Goes
書籍紹介態度についてアメリカ人教授が、ずる賢い女子学生に“戦利品”として誘惑され、彼女はその関係を吹聴します。 それが大きなスキャンダルへと発展。伝統に縛られた彼は、自らの名誉を取り戻すために戦います。覚めた愛働き者の日本人キャリア女性は、職場の飲み会に強制的に参加させられ、次第にアルコールと 健康悪化に苦しみます。そんな彼女が出会うのは、情熱的な心を持つエネルギッシュな外資系 ビジネスマン、フランク…。丙午（ひのえうま）不幸な結婚生活から逃れた外国人男性が、東京のスリリングな恋愛市場に飛び込む。 彼は本当の愛に出会えるのか？歴史的に、丙午（ひのえうま）の年には出生率が急落しました。 なぜなら、丙午生まれの女の子は「意志が強く、短気で、あまりに自立している」と言われており、 それが稲作という集団作業において求められる協調性を脅かすと考えられていたからです。 ２０２６年はどうなるのか楽しみですね……来年は丙午の年なのです！
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マーニー・ミューラー（元エクアドル派遣ピースコー・ボランティア／第二次大戦中の日系人収容に関するノンフィ
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Published June 28, 2025
About the author
Eric Madeen
10 books15 followersBestselling literary author Eric Madeen recently and formally retired after a nearly 30 year career as an Associate Professor of American Literature at Tokyo City University and Adjunct Professor at Keio University. His work has appeared in TIME Magazine, Asia Week, The East, The Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo Journal, Kyoto Journal, Metropolis, Mississippi Review, ANA's Wingspan, East of the Web, Japanophile, The Pretentious Idea, Yomimono, Peace Corps Worldwide, The Imperial, Tombstone Epitaph, numerous anthologies and academic journals and so on.
Three of his books gained Amazon bestseller status including his most recently released sixth book Tokyo-ing! Three Novellas, jazzing up Asia's most dynamic metropolis. In the triptych Madeen makes good on Nabokov's brilliance: "The best art is not simple and sincere but deceitful and complex." And here Madeen adds, Think The Mona Lisa's Smile.
Following such smile fittingly in its complexities are sly and thus fascinating shenanigans going down in Tokyo-ing! -- in both long and near shots and between spiced with a rocking-it cross-cultural depth, it cracks open what the bestselling wunderkind Paul Theroux summed up to the author as "... a nesting box of secrets strenuously kept. I challenge you to write of the inner life of the Japanese." Done!
And coming out just prior to that and set in historically rich Yokohama, is his pomo immigrant novel Tennis Clubbed, Snubbed and Rubbity-Dub Dubbed, part trip wire, trap doors and and brick walls set up by an ancient culture's barriers to the "gaijin" or outsider. Before the hilarious antics in classrooms, the novel opens with the protagonist's approach shot to a fictionalized tennis club that ends up with the familiar wicked shiver of the tennis club snub. In the frustration and through it the author literarily jackknifes into the deep end of comparative culture until he, to quote The Doors, breaks on through to the other side. Notable is his M.D. wife and her riding a 1200cc rice-rocket Yamaha with his riding shotgun and doing all the cooking. Good stuff ... All of it. He means the cooking!
For 2.3 years Madeen served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Francophone Gabon, Africa where he built a primary school complex in a remote equatorial village surrounded by rainforest, an experience which inspired his first book Water Drumming in the Soul: A Novel of Racy Love in the Heart of Africa.
Over the years he has been interviewed on several radio programs, YouTube videos and blogs (16 American and 1 Japanese) and for various print media.
Having lived in four countries and visited 20 more, he has travelled extensively as witnessed in his recently released travelogue Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan, which scales down the sprawl of Asia by focusing on the unique and revelatory - from the razzmatazz of novice monks at play in northern Laos to bonding with hustling pedicab drivers in Ho Chi Minh City to novel things Japanese.
Finally, you can get down with the full body with his high-octane second novel, the crime thriller eponymously entitled Massage World. By turns erotic and exotic and set in SoCal, Japan and back, it's does justice to the sliding signifier of the word massage itself, by turns crystally and sleazy so much so that the two sides realized in MW throw off jumper cable sparks in what the police chief summarizes as, "... an all and out massage war!" started by a wild parlor lord and his Dionysian rogues' gallery insinuating themselves both stealthily and profoundly in MW. The cavalry in the form of a lesbian biker gang on their rice rockets blast open the doors of the massage industry where it can be seen how the body is in such pain it's making a tent out of the drape. Madeen not only gives readers a peek under the drape but throws the damned thing off!
Experience this mind f*** of a novel!
Three of his books gained Amazon bestseller status including his most recently released sixth book Tokyo-ing! Three Novellas, jazzing up Asia's most dynamic metropolis. In the triptych Madeen makes good on Nabokov's brilliance: "The best art is not simple and sincere but deceitful and complex." And here Madeen adds, Think The Mona Lisa's Smile.
Following such smile fittingly in its complexities are sly and thus fascinating shenanigans going down in Tokyo-ing! -- in both long and near shots and between spiced with a rocking-it cross-cultural depth, it cracks open what the bestselling wunderkind Paul Theroux summed up to the author as "... a nesting box of secrets strenuously kept. I challenge you to write of the inner life of the Japanese." Done!
And coming out just prior to that and set in historically rich Yokohama, is his pomo immigrant novel Tennis Clubbed, Snubbed and Rubbity-Dub Dubbed, part trip wire, trap doors and and brick walls set up by an ancient culture's barriers to the "gaijin" or outsider. Before the hilarious antics in classrooms, the novel opens with the protagonist's approach shot to a fictionalized tennis club that ends up with the familiar wicked shiver of the tennis club snub. In the frustration and through it the author literarily jackknifes into the deep end of comparative culture until he, to quote The Doors, breaks on through to the other side. Notable is his M.D. wife and her riding a 1200cc rice-rocket Yamaha with his riding shotgun and doing all the cooking. Good stuff ... All of it. He means the cooking!
For 2.3 years Madeen served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Francophone Gabon, Africa where he built a primary school complex in a remote equatorial village surrounded by rainforest, an experience which inspired his first book Water Drumming in the Soul: A Novel of Racy Love in the Heart of Africa.
Over the years he has been interviewed on several radio programs, YouTube videos and blogs (16 American and 1 Japanese) and for various print media.
Having lived in four countries and visited 20 more, he has travelled extensively as witnessed in his recently released travelogue Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan, which scales down the sprawl of Asia by focusing on the unique and revelatory - from the razzmatazz of novice monks at play in northern Laos to bonding with hustling pedicab drivers in Ho Chi Minh City to novel things Japanese.
Finally, you can get down with the full body with his high-octane second novel, the crime thriller eponymously entitled Massage World. By turns erotic and exotic and set in SoCal, Japan and back, it's does justice to the sliding signifier of the word massage itself, by turns crystally and sleazy so much so that the two sides realized in MW throw off jumper cable sparks in what the police chief summarizes as, "... an all and out massage war!" started by a wild parlor lord and his Dionysian rogues' gallery insinuating themselves both stealthily and profoundly in MW. The cavalry in the form of a lesbian biker gang on their rice rockets blast open the doors of the massage industry where it can be seen how the body is in such pain it's making a tent out of the drape. Madeen not only gives readers a peek under the drape but throws the damned thing off!
Experience this mind f*** of a novel!
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