Tokyo Daze: A Gaijin's Drift Through Bubble-Era Tokyo

by Mark Coughlin

96 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2026

About the author

Mark Coughlin is an American former English teacher who spent over 30 years in Japan. His memoir, Tokyo Daze: A Gaijin’s Drift Through Bubble-Era Tokyo, is an unfiltered account of the minor triumphs and private humiliations of a young man slowly falling apart during the mid-1980s economic bubble.

Reviews

[Lisa]

Tokyo Daze is an interesting glimpse of life for an American teaching English in Japan during the 1980s. Good short read. Thanks to Goodreads, the publisher, and author for this giveaway. I have given my honest review.

[Edward Gelband]

Want to Read More

Good, matter of fact memoir. I get a sense of life back then in Tokyo. I would like to read more.

[Paris]

i thought this was going to involve drifting lol