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Tokyo is a 2004 novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder. It was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, as well as several others. (For the US market, the title was changed to The Devil of Nanking, which had been Hayder's working-title for the book.) Tokyo was reviewed by the internationally read UK newspaper, the Guardian as well as by Kirkus Reviews under its US title. Plot introduction The story is about a young woman (nicknamed 'Grey' by a fellow mental hospital patient) who is obsessed with the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanjing (Nanking), which resulted in the Rape of Nanking. She travels to Japan in order to find a professor said to have rare footage of the massacre detailing an event that she could not otherwise prove occurred. The professor decides that he will only show her the tape if she was to procure an unknown ingredient of Chinese medicine from the local Yakuza group. After being recruited into a host club, Grey finds her chance. Major themes The book deals with the evils of ignorance, Grey being a home-schooled child whose mother heavily censored everything she came into contact with, the politics of modern-day Yakuza, and the glitzy underground night-life of Tokyo, as well as the build-up and reality of the Rape of Nanking and the effect it still has today. References

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“If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, SPIEGEL Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro: "I Remain Fascinated by Memory", Der Spiegel, 5 October 2005.
“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975 ISBN 978-0156717205

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Tokyo: capital and largest city of Japan · 2018 song by Juju · single by Hans Vandenburg, lead singer of Gruppo Sportivo · song performed by The Adicts

Notable quotes

“If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, SPIEGEL Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro: "I Remain Fascinated by Memory", Der Spiegel, 5 October 2005.
“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975 ISBN 978-0156717205

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Tokyo is a 2004 novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder. It was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, as well as several others. (For the US market, the title was changed to The Devil of Nanking, which had been Hayder's working-title for the book.) Tokyo was reviewed by the internationally read UK newspaper, the Guardian as well as by Kirkus Reviews under its US title. Plot introduction The story is about a young woman (nicknamed 'Grey' by a fellow mental hospital patient) who is obsessed with the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanjing (Nanking), which resulted in the Rape of Nanking. She travels to Japan in order to find a professor said to have rare footage of the massacre detailing an event that she could not otherwise prove occurred. The professor decides that he will only show her the tape if she was to procure an unknown ingredient of Chinese medicine from the local Yakuza group. After being recruited into a host club, Grey finds her chance. Major themes The book deals with the evils of ignorance, Grey being a home-schooled child whose mother heavily censored everything she came into contact with, the politics of modern-day Yakuza, and the glitzy underground night-life of Tokyo, as well as the build-up and reality of the Rape of Nanking and the effect it still has today. References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).