Angry White Pyjamas

Author:

By Robert Twigger

Awards:

William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Winner 1998

Format:

Paperback

Availability:

In print, usually dispatched within 5-7 days.

Price:

£7.99

Tagged with:

Martial Arts, Aikido, Tokyo

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Further Details

• Published: 30th Dec 1999
• ISBN: 0753808587
• Pages: 316
• Size: 198mm x 129mm

From Word of Sport:

Adrift in Tokyo, living in a cramped apartment, Twigger feels he needs to clean himself up. Sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, he joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally intensive course of aikido training.

From the Publisher:

Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: 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.