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Speaker: Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld, ...
Topic: Wa '89 = Wa '09 ?
When: Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, 24 May 2009
Admission: Buy a copy of the 2009 edition of You Gotta Have Wa from Good Day Books
Robert Whiting was born in New Jersey, raised in California, and first came to Japan with U.S. military intelligence in 1962. After graduating from Tokyo's Sophia University in 1969 with a degree in Japanese politics, he worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica Japan. In 1972, he moved to New York City and wrote his first book, The Chrysanthemum and the Bat (Dodd Mead, 1977), which was chosen by Time as the best sports book of the year. He has lived in Japan for 31 of the past 46 years and currently divides his time among homes in Kamakura, Tokyo, and Salinas, California.
Whiting is the author of several other highly acclaimed books on contemorary Japan, including:
You Gotta Have Wa (MacMillan, 1989; updated edition Vintage, 2009), which examines Japan through the lens of its adopted sport of baseball. You Gotta Have Wa was a Book of the Month Club selection and is required reading at the Japan Desk of the US Department of State;
Tokyo Underworld (Pantheon, 1999), which describes organized crime in Japan and examines the corrupt side of the Japan-US relationship; and
The Meaning of Ichiro (Warner Books, 2004) and its revised, expanded version The Samurai Way of Baseball (Warner Books, 2005), which describe the impact on US baseball of outfielder Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners.
To attend Robert Whiting's BookNotes presentation, you must buy a copy of the 2009 edition of You Gotta Have Wa from our shop. Paperback copies of You Gotta Have Wa are available from Good Day Books for each, tax included.
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