Dave Barry Does Japan

So What Did Japan Ever do to Dave Barry? It introduced him to a mouth-watering array of Far Eastern culinary delights ("the Japanese routinely eat things that have eyeballs or suckers or other flagrantly unacceptable organs still attached to them"); exposed him to high culture ("one hour of watching Kabuki is the equivalent of seventeen hours spent in a more enjoyable activity, such as eye surgery"); and brought him face-to-face (or belly-to-belly) with the sports sensation that is sumo wrestling ("two severely porky guys in jockstraps lunging into each other"). Not since George Bush's memorable dinner with the Japanese prime minister has the Land of the Rising Sun seen the likes of a goodwill ambassador like Dave Barry. Join him as he belts out oldies in a karaoke bar, marries a geriatric geisha girl, takes his first bath in public, bows to just about everyone, and explores culture shock in all its numerous, humorous, forms, including: * Failing to Learn Japanese in Only Five Minutes (Or: "Very Much Good Morning, Sir!") * Secrets of Japanese Industry (I Probably Should Have Written Them Down) * Humor in Japan (Take My Tofu! Please!) * Sports in Japan ("Yo, Batter! Loudly Make It Fly!") * Lost in Tokyo (Or: Looking for Plastic Squid) * Staying at a Japanese Inn (Peace, Tranquillity, Insects).Barry, Dave is the author of 'Dave Barry Does Japan', published 1993 under ISBN 9780449908105 and ISBN 0449908100.