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Title: Twee Ken Rickety bores us back to the Stone Age.
Review: To the ill-informed, Ken Rickety and his dancing poodles may succeed in presenting Tokyo as wonderfully incomprehensible, just as Dave Barry makes it appear extraterrestrial. But one must wonder how far from "Home Sweet Tokyo" TQ's collective travels has taken it to arrive at such twaddle. Tokyo is a big city, and as such has an abundance of quirkiness. But so too have Chicago, Copenhagen and Lima, to name but a few. Dig deeper, and the reader will quickly discover Rickety's sun has long set: The mindset of his ilk has never fully been able to ford the eighties, a decade that irrevocably changed the course of Tokyo. Rickety's is a world of jazz, and quaint coffee shops, and bath houses, and factory workers benignly breaking the antiquated codes of their parents' generation. Although perhaps fascinating to the social historian, these facets have little to do with the Tokyo of 2001. Somebody please tell him; but politely, of course.
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