Book Review: The Japanese
This book,"The Japanese", written by Jack Seward covers a lot of information on the overall life of Japan, however, I will only summarized fifty-three pages of this book which will cover their food and drink (chap 8 pp.133 -162) and their language (chap.9 pp.163 -186). A lot of the information is past through little anecdotes that Seward has experienced with the Japanese.
The author starts the chapter on food and drink by telling the reader a little story on how two of his japanese friends vacationing in Hawaii had to to empty their luggage to lighten them while at the airport. They decided to take out packages of rice, tins of tea, bags of pickles vegetables, bamboo cans, sake bottles, dried fish, salted plums, boxes of seaweed, bags of rices crackers, fish in cans, hard fish cakes, soy sauce bottles, and many more food was taken out. All this food added up to a mass of eighty pounds. Curious, Jack Seward would ask them why they travel with this amount of food and they......
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