Title: A Good Read
Product review: Some of the people who reviewed this book took it way too seriously. To criticize Mr. Greenfeld for not backing up his "analysis" of Japanese youth culture with scientific facts and evidence is ridiculous. The author of this book is NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, an erudite, scholarly observer of Japanese society. Like thousands of young Westerners before and since, he initially went to Japan as a JET Program participant and used his considerable writing skills to quickly move beyond the world of teaching English. Whether or not his stories are true is irrelevant. Whether or not they even accurately reflect the lifestyle of Japan's "next generation" is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that his stories, while occasionally a bit slow, are well written and worth reading.
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