Our Terayama Project – Finally on Sale
It would make a fine Christmas or New Year’s gift for anyone interested in the 1960s, movies, boxing, sex , horse-racing, post-war Japanese culture and great photography. Buy a Japanese Dream today.
I am a Digital Cat: A Japanese Future
Here is a manga about Japan’s future written by me and illustrated by the eminent manga artist Toshio Ban, a disciple and former assistant of “the god of manga” Osamu Tezuka. The piece was originally intended for McKinsey’s Reimagining Japan book, but relegated to the webiste at the last minute in the wake of the 3/11 disasters.
North Korea’s Dear Leader Assassinated By A Japanese Yakuza?
That’s the theme of my most recent book, Maximum Target, published under the pseudonym of Martin Gower.
Title Japan’s Choices
Japanese language, co-written with Bill Emmott. A look at Japan’s possible futures.
Vulture’s Banquet
Japanese language. Thriller about the take-over of a scandal-drenched Japanese bank by a mysterious foreign private equity firm.
Dragon Dance
Japan, China and the US in a deadly geopolitical triangle featuring terrorism, assassinations and rock musicians. According to the Daily Yomiuri, “an absorbing and visceral read.”
Wind of the Gods
Japanese version of Dragon Dance.
Samurai Boogie
Mori rides again. The down-at-heel ex-radical private eye takes on a sinister software entrepreneur, psychotic gangsters, and wild wild strippers. “One of the best detective novels ever written,” according to Publishers Weekly.
Japan In Play
Japan’s challenges in the age of unconstrained globalization.
Japan 2020
Japanese language. Three wildly different scenarios for Japan in the year 2020 – Turning the Tables, Digital Renaissance, The Long Sayonara.