A captivating and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history, and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, traces his introduction to the boardrooms of Tokyo during the intoxicating bubble years, and tells the story of the hidden valley that became his home. Yet the book is not just a love letter. Laced with nostalgia for old Japan, Kerr's book is partly a tribute to this great country and its culture, and partly an epitaph in light of the ecological and cultural destruction of contemporary Japan. Winner of Japan's Shincho Gakugei Literary Prize and now with a new preface. Alex Kerr is an American writer, antique collector, and Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the first foreigner to receive the S.