Volume 37, Number 11 · June 28, 1990
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie
By Ian Buruma
Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake
by Edward Seidensticker
Knopf, 362 pp., $24.95
Of all the emotions one might associate with Tokyo, that most modern of cities, nostalgia would not rank high in the minds of most people. Yet that is precisely what many lovers and literary worshipers of Tokyo feel: a poignant sense of what has been lost. The aficionado, wandering through the Tokyo streets, finds his memory jolted with reminders, like pleasant little electric shocks, of what once was and is no more. One such aficionado, the Tokyo correspondent of Le Monde, put it rather well in his distinguished book D'Edo à Tokyo:
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