SSJ Forum Archive: [SSJ: 11399] FCCJ Book Break May 12. 17:30. Robert Whiting, author of "Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball"

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April 6, 2021

[SSJ: 11399] FCCJ Book Break May 12. 17:30. Robert Whiting, author of "Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball"

From: FCCJ Library <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2021/04/06

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) Library is pleased to announce the upcoming Book Break event on May 12, 2021.

Book Break : "Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball"
By Robert Whiting
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
(The talk will be in English)

Admission:
3,000 yen/ 4,000 yen (member/ non-member, including tax, a set dinner with a drink)
550 yen (Online attendance via zoom)

Please sign up by email (front@fccj.or.jp) and pay by Friday, May 7th, 2021.

Venue:
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
5F Marunouchi Nijubashi Building
3-2-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
(https://www.fccj.or.jp/article/access-contact)

Best-selling author and journalist Robert Whiting will speak about his latest book,/Tokyo Junkie/ - a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.

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