The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan

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Summary: best first-hand insight into the real japan I've ever read
Review: This is a humorous and haunting book....humorous because Booth had a true observers touch for detail, personal observation and contrast. Haunting, because it was one of the last things he must have written in his short life.

When I picked the book up, I had no idea the author was my old schoolfriend. We lost touch at university 30 years ago. It was the same Alan. Individual, witty and single minded. It was also Japan as I've experienced it: the real people and the cultural mix that is both familiar and alien.

This is an insight into a face of Japan that is harder to find with each year. It's also a fitting memorial to a dedicated and unusual man.