The
Couch Potato's Guide to Japan
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Inside the World of Japanese TV --
 By Wm. Penn Illustration by Julie Morikawa Published by Forest River Press Copyright 2003 Kathleen Morikawa Paperback, 202 pages, 148 x 210 mm ISBN 4-902-422-01-8 Yen 1,800 May be ordered from IMC (click to contact) IMC welcomes orders from
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Wm. Penn, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., arrived in Japan in 1973, bought a TV in 1982 and has been watching it all over the archipelago ever since. Penn has written the weekly TV column "Televiews" for the Daily Yomiuri -- the English-language edition of Japan's largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun -- since 1987. Use the form here to order or ask us at IMC a
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The Couch Potato's Guide is about watching TV. I contains nothing about technological innovations and no insider secrets, but it is packed with information. Here is an informative and fun book that will help anyone to enjoy Japanese TV, and that adds up to enjoying life in Japan. The major sections of the book are: The TV Archipelago
Japanese TV Sociology 101 Small Screen Drama TV Language and Linguistics 102 Gotta Laugh, Gotta Cry TV News File A Vast Variety of Variety Favorite Japanese TV Pastimes TV Tourism Televiews Moments The TV Directory "Japan is an island nation inhabited by almost 127 million Japanese and over 100 million analog television sets in imminent danger of being unplugged. Digital TV is the wave of the future in Japan. All terrestrial and BS analog TV is scheduled to end in July 2011. making most of the nation's current television sets obsolete." If you haven't done so already, explore: jpgsonline.com, imcbook.net or our Japanese pages. |
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