Looking for the Lost Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan

"This deliberately non-reflective, people-oriented approach makes it hard for the reader to decide to what extent Booth did define and locate 'the lost' in the regions he walked through on these three journeys. But it does allow for a lot of entertaining stories about the people he met who were generous and welcoming, as well as the many who were cold and offensive; the interpolation of a number of acid-bitten reflections on such facets of contemporary Japan as golf, hot spring resorts, eating establishments, the frilly lizard boom, the folk-music boom, highway development, and the 'slow ruination' of rural landscapes, and a sense, implied if not stated, of formerly distinctive regions somewhat unevenly in transition to a condition indistinguishable from the condition of things all over the country."Booth, Alan is the author of 'Looking for the Lost Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan' with ISBN 9781568361482 and ISBN 1568361483.