{"subtitle": "Observations and Provocations", "title": "A Beginner's Guide to Japan", "key": "/works/OL20334737W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL540629A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Travel", "Description and travel", "Japan, description and travel", "Japan, social life and customs"], "covers": [8998281], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\u201cArguably the greatest living travel writer\u201d (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as he is the first to admit, the country remains an enigma even to its long-term residents. In A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Japan, Iyer draws on his years of experience\u2014his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections\u2014to craft a playful and profound book of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. He recounts his adventures and observations as he travels from a meditation hall to a love hotel, from West Point to Kyoto Station, and from dinner with Meryl Streep to an ill-fated call to the Apple service center in a series of provocations guaranteed to\r\npique the interest and curiosity of those who don\u2019t know Japan\u2014and to remind those who do of its myriad fascinations."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-10-23T19:39:15.446852"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-06-06T23:01:34.351748"}}