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Comment je suis devenu japonais
Tokyo, milieu des années 1990. À vingt ans, son diplôme de japonais en poche, Florent Dabadie s'installe pour quelques mois au Japon.
Trente ans plus tard, il vit toujours là-bas. Il a été salaryman (employé de bureau), interprète, s'est marié avec une Japonaise et est devenu une star de la télévision.
Sa façon de raconter ses années japonaises, avec un sens du détail juste et une émotion à fleur de peau, est unique. Comment je suis devenu japonais est une immersion au coeur de ce pays si fascinant.
Trente ans plus tard, il vit toujours là-bas. Il a été salaryman (employé de bureau), interprète, s'est marié avec une Japonaise et est devenu une star de la télévision.
Sa façon de raconter ses années japonaises, avec un sens du détail juste et une émotion à fleur de peau, est unique. Comment je suis devenu japonais est une immersion au coeur de ce pays si fascinant.
139 pages, Paperback
Published February 2, 2023
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March 14, 2025
This was supposed to be a look on Japan from the eyes of a French expatriate.
Instead, it was a French expatriate babbling about his career and how it was not easy to fit in Japanese society, and how he wishes the country was different: more multicultural, more social security, more female empowerment... All the clichés a European liberal takes with him wherever he goes, judging every society through his liberal glasses, without ever trying to truly and deeply understand a different civilisation.
He spent 20 years there, took everything he could (career, fame, wife), and when Japan had nothing else to offer to the middle-aged man he had become, he went back to France. Typical.
You will not learn much about Japan and Japanese people, at least nothing that you don't already know. But you will learn too much about this random dude you have zero interest in.
Instead, it was a French expatriate babbling about his career and how it was not easy to fit in Japanese society, and how he wishes the country was different: more multicultural, more social security, more female empowerment... All the clichés a European liberal takes with him wherever he goes, judging every society through his liberal glasses, without ever trying to truly and deeply understand a different civilisation.
He spent 20 years there, took everything he could (career, fame, wife), and when Japan had nothing else to offer to the middle-aged man he had become, he went back to France. Typical.
You will not learn much about Japan and Japanese people, at least nothing that you don't already know. But you will learn too much about this random dude you have zero interest in.
September 17, 2023
Un histoire émouvant racontant une vie marquée à jamais par le japon, ses valeurs, et sa culture.
November 16, 2023
J’ai retrouvé dans ce livre les bruits du métro tokyoite, les chansons du Family Mart et l’odeurs de friture des memory lanes. Un portrait du visage culturel et sociologique du Japon, véritable travail d’ethnologie.
August 20, 2025
Una joyita franco-japonesa.
September 9, 2025
j'ai aimé parce que c'était au Japon sinon l'histoire était bof
October 21, 2025
À fuir !!
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