Banzai! [antikvár]

This is the Story '^HIS absorbing story opens in London, and at a cinema in Piccadilly Circus we are introduced to the hero, Takao Ono—a picaresque and enterprising rascal, who has made his own country rather too warm to hold him and has wandered westwards, led by his quaint knowledge of English and a vague ambition to " make a great sound in the world." A little Japanese boy of the small shopkeeper class, born in the country, expelled from school, accepted by a Christian College, drifting through the Bohemian student life of Tokyo, experimenting in the temptations and excitements of the Japanese capital, imprisoned finally for street rioting, and shaking off the dust of his unappreciative fatherland—such was the early life of Takao Ono, a rascal, an adventurer, a scalljrwag, yet very human and somehow lovable. The book is chiefly composed of Ono's memories, and both the contrasts and resemblances with occidental life are equally surprising.