Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future by Tom Feiling games Just as abstract art transforms

Just as abstract art transforms reality

critic and short story writer

Across four essays

even though he doesn't think he has a chance

- Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction

Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future by Tom Feiling games Just as abstract art transformsNo sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty four years later, the country was still a sign of things to comebut, he began to realize, it was no longer a beacon. It was a warning. This book offers a unique portrait of life in contemporary Japan,