The Nomo Effect
Author
ROBERT WHITING is an author and journalist who has written several acclaimed books on contemporary Japanese culture. You Gotta Have Wa (1989) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; Tokyo Underworld (1999), an account of the corrupt side of US-Japan relations, was a bestseller in Japan. Whiting's other works include The Chrysanthemum and the Bat (1977), chosen as the best sports book of the year by Time magazine; Slugging It Out In Japan (1992); and The Meaning of Ichiro (2004). A graduate of Tokyo's Sophia University, Whiting has spent 33 of the past 48 years in. Japan,
