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Angry White Pyjamas: An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police

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Oxford poet’s gritty Tokyo riot-police training.

If you're into memoirs that transport you to a world that's completely different from your own, "Angry White Pyjamas" is worth picking up. It's a rare peek into the intense life of training with the Tokyo riot police, all through the lens of a poet. The clash of cultures and the physical and mental transformation the author undergoes is not only compelling but also laced with a unique humor.

  • Somerset Maugham Award (1998)
  • William Hill Sports Book of the Year (1998)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Angry White Pyjamas: An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police

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ISBN: 9780575401242
Authors: Robert Twigger
Publisher: Phoenix
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel, Sports
Goodreads rating: 3.98
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A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan. Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese high school girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones. In Angry White Pyjamas, Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century - to provide an entertaining and captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan.
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Oxford poet’s gritty Tokyo riot-police training.

If you're into memoirs that transport you to a world that's completely different from your own, "Angry White Pyjamas" is worth picking up. It's a rare peek into the intense life of training with the Tokyo riot police, all through the lens of a poet. The clash of cultures and the physical and mental transformation the author undergoes is not only compelling but also laced with a unique humor.

  • Somerset Maugham Award (1998)
  • William Hill Sports Book of the Year (1998)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.