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How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old children commute to school on their own? Why are there no trashcans in Japanese cities? Why are Ganesha idols in Japanese temples hidden from public view? Globe-trotting journalist Pallavi Aiyar moves to Japan and takes an in-depth look at the island country including its culinary, sanitary and floral idiosyncrasies. Steering through the many (mis)adventures that come from learning a new language, imbibing new cultural etiquette, and asking difficult questions about race, Aiyar explores why Japan and India find it hard to work together despite sharing a long civilizational history. Part travelogue, part reportage, Orienting answers questions that have long confounded the rest of the world with Aiyar's trademark humour. Tackling both the significant and the trivial, the quirky and the quotidian, here is an Indian's account of Japan that is as thought-provoking as it is charming.

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PallaviAiyar has written, especially for Indians, but not only, a revealing, witty,sensitive, empathetic, insightful and highly readable book onunderstanding the inscrutable Japanese and their opaque society, It is equal toa dozen learned books on this subject.
Pavan K. Varma

Japan has long fascinated Indian political leaders, cultural personalities, administrators andscholars. One of the hit Bollywood films when I was a teenager was called Love in Tokyo. Buddhism has tied the two together. PallaviAiyar’s perspective is, however, distinctive. She is an intrepidglobe-trotter and a delightful story-teller. Having written earlier about her stints in China, Europe and Indonesia, she now turns her sharpeye for the unusual on Japan. Orienting will be of great value to the seriousreader. But it is written in a most engaging manner, making it accessibleto anyone seeking to understand the many complexities of Japanesesociety.
JairamRamesh

I was enchanted. Thereis a delightful surprise in every chapter of this charming, highly readablebook about the weft and warp of daily life in inscrutable Japan, especially itsmoral complexity.
Gurcharan Das

About the Author

Award-winning journalist Pallavi Aiyar has spent several years reporting from, and parenting in, China, Europe and Indonesia. She is the author of Smoke and Mirrors, Chinese Whiskers and Punjabi Parmesan. Pallavi is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a former Reuters Fellow at Oxford University.
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  • ISBN: 9789354227646
  • Author: Pallavi Aiyar
  • Publisher: HarperCollins India
  • Pages: 304
  • Format: Paperback
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How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old children commute to school on their own? Why are there no trashcans in Japanese cities? Why are Ganesha idols in Japanese temples hidden from public view? Globe-trotting journalist Pallavi Aiyar moves to Japan and takes an in-depth look at the island country including its culinary, sanitary and floral idiosyncrasies. Steering through the many (mis)adventures that come from learning a new language, imbibing new cultural etiquette, and asking difficult questions about race, Aiyar explores why Japan and India find it hard to work together despite sharing a long civilizational history. Part travelogue, part reportage, Orienting answers questions that have long confounded the rest of the world with Aiyar's trademark humour. Tackling both the significant and the trivial, the quirky and the quotidian, here is an Indian's account of Japan that is as thought-provoking as it is charming.

Review

PallaviAiyar has written, especially for Indians, but not only, a revealing, witty,sensitive, empathetic, insightful and highly readable book onunderstanding the inscrutable Japanese and their opaque society, It is equal toa dozen learned books on this subject.
Pavan K. Varma

Japan has long fascinated Indian political leaders, cultural personalities, administrators andscholars. One of the hit Bollywood films when I was a teenager was called Love in Tokyo. Buddhism has tied the two together. PallaviAiyar’s perspective is, however, distinctive. She is an intrepidglobe-trotter and a delightful story-teller. Having written earlier about her stints in China, Europe and Indonesia, she now turns her sharpeye for the unusual on Japan. Orienting will be of great value to the seriousreader. But it is written in a most engaging manner, making it accessibleto anyone seeking to understand the many complexities of Japanesesociety.
JairamRamesh

I was enchanted. Thereis a delightful surprise in every chapter of this charming, highly readablebook about the weft and warp of daily life in inscrutable Japan, especially itsmoral complexity.
Gurcharan Das

About the Author

Award-winning journalist Pallavi Aiyar has spent several years reporting from, and parenting in, China, Europe and Indonesia. She is the author of Smoke and Mirrors, Chinese Whiskers and Punjabi Parmesan. Pallavi is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a former Reuters Fellow at Oxford University.

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