 The Barnes Review edition was subsequently translated into Japanese in 2004 by a pair of Japanese translators , Hideo Tanaka and Kenkichi Sakita , and became an instant success , selling out 10 successive re @-@ printings before 2007 when it was reissued as a mass market paperback . Gregory Clark noted that the Japanese edition of Ways That Are Dark , which was entitled Ankoku Tairiku Chūgoku no Shinjitsu ( " The Truth About the Dark Continent China " ) , had garnered widespread popularity among members of the Japanese right @-@ wing . 
