Tokyo Bay Traffic
Title | Tokyo Bay Traffic PDF eBook |
Author | Cecile ROSSANT |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2007-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781597096904 |
Tokyo Bay Traffic, set in a geographically extended Tokyo, follows three characters through the illusory world of TokyoÆs hostess clubs and a newly built theme park, Fresh Style New York (F.S.N.Y). Kang, a hard-working accountant, doesnÆt at first stand out from the group with which he spends his waking life. In The Tuna Club, for example, he cheers the hostesses in unison with his fellow colleagues. Like everyone else, he returns home dead drunk. But directed by an undefined desire to escape, Kang convinces a colleague to accompany him to an avant-garde strip club in F.S.N.Y, a theme park on a man-made island off the coast of Tokyo and site of the dance theater, The Club of the Perfect Fragment. The performances he sees at the club obsess Kang and he returns alone a few nights later. Leaving the theater, mesmerized, he loses himself in the more desolate streets of F.S.N.Y. Beneath the overhead ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge Barge, Kang crosses paths with Livia, a dancer and one of F.S.N.Y.Æs few permanent residents. Livia, daughter of an American GI and a Japanese army base hostess, has only recently left her Okinawan hometown in search of a better life in Tokyo. She quickly finds work in F.S.N.Y., choreographing dances and performing at the Club of the Perfect Fragment. Although fully engaged in her work at the club, she is subject to bouts of temporary amnesia. In the early morning hours both Kang and Livia are audience to an unorthodox performance on a deserted city corner: an old bum repeatedly inflates nude “play-dolls” until they burst. Kang is driven to pick up the pieces... Then there is Ki-ku-ko, the one-eyed hostess, who approaches every situation like an improvisation. Even when in the hospital recuperating from the accident in which a small pebble struck her, blinding her in one eye, Ki-ku-ko exhibits eccentric behavior. Unable to recognize their daughter or control her wildness, her parents force her to leave their house and set up on her own. Soon after, she begins working as a hostess. Like a performance artist, Ki-ku-ko develops multiple personas. Either sheÆs working in disguise as Jaki-O at the hostess club Fu-fuÆs (Feline Unlimited) or sheÆs experimenting with customers in the self-constructed erotic landscape in her one-bedroom apartment. The story culminates in two meetings: the first in the form of a dance of power between Ki-ku-ko and Livia. The second meeting is between Kang and the ineffable erotic energy he had heretofore been at such pains to neutralize. At the heart of the novel is Tokyo Bay itself -- its polluted waters harboring an elusive flotilla: boats rocking with a group of illicit pleasure seekers.
Tokyo Traffic
Title | Tokyo Traffic PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Pronko |
Publisher | Raked Gravel Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2020-06-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1942410204 |
Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, and some stolen money, she stays ahead of her former captors willing to do anything to recover the computer she took. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya makes plans to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office to investigate a porn studio where a brutal triple murder took place. The studio’s accounts point him in multiple directions at once. Together with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the killers through Tokyo’s teen hangouts, bayside docks and crowded squares, straight into the underbelly of the global economy. As bodies wash up from Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl at the center of it all, whose name he doesn’t even know. He uncovers a human trafficking ring and cryptocurrency scammers whose connections extend to the highest levels of Tokyo’s power elite.
Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway
Title | Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway PDF eBook |
Author | Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway Corporation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Artificial islands |
ISBN |
Port Needs Study (vessel Traffic Services Benefits).
Title | Port Needs Study (vessel Traffic Services Benefits). PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Electronics in navigation |
ISBN |
Port Needs Study (vessel Traffic Services Benefits).: Technical supplement
Title | Port Needs Study (vessel Traffic Services Benefits).: Technical supplement PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 718 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Electronics in navigation |
ISBN |
Traffic in Tokyo
Title | Traffic in Tokyo PDF eBook |
Author | Tokyo (Japan). Shōgai Kankōbu. Gaijika |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | City planning |
ISBN |
Public Transportation and Traffic Situation in Tokyo
Title | Public Transportation and Traffic Situation in Tokyo PDF eBook |
Author | Tokyo (Japan). Kōtsūkyoku |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN |