Book description

Legless in Ginza is a witty and idiosyncratic picture of Japan at a traumatic time in its history. 

Robin Gerster lived and worked in Tokyo while Japan was reverberating with the shocks and aftershocks of political, bureaucratic, financial and social scandal. 

Part travel book, part personal and professional memoir, part cultural study, Legless in Ginza also ponders the travel experience itself. How does an outsider orientate himself in Japan? How does he adapt the country to suit himself? What does it mean simply to be `away'? And what-and where-is the elusive place called Home? 

About the Author

Robin Gerster is an Associate Professor in the School of Literary, Visual & Performance Studies at Monash University. He has published in the areas of war and travel literatures.  He is the author of Seizures of Youth (1991), Hotel Asia (1995) and the award-winning Big-noting (1987), and has published widely in newspapers and journals in both Australia and Japan.

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