CONTENTS
Introduction
Preface
BOOK ONE
LOW CITY, HIGH CITY
Author’s Preface
1. The End and the Beginning
2. Civilization and Enlightenment
3. The Double Life
4. The Decay of the Decadent
5. Low City, High City
6. The Taisho Look
BOOK TWO
TOKYO RISING
7. The Days After
8. Happy Reconstruction Days
9. Darker Days
10. The Day of the Cod and the Sweet Potato
11. Olympian Days
12. Balmy Days of Late Shōwa
Notes
Index
