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Saitama. A place considered so uncool by urban Japanese that it had spawned its own adjective, dasai, meaning "not hip, boring, unfashionable."
In other words, I'd been assigned to the New Jersey of Japan.
— Aug 14, 2026 11:21AM
In other words, I'd been assigned to the New Jersey of Japan.
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What do you think so far, Mike? Ever since I've watched Tokyo Vice I want to read this.
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I'm really enjoying this. Lots of personality, lots of gallows humor, very immersive. I think you've got to be okay with the idea that Jake is kind of his own Marlowe in a quasi-Chandler novel he's writing himself, set in Tokyo. I find myself reading it like fiction. How was the show?