by Merry White (Author)
Part ethnography, part memoir, this book traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. It also traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04 May 2012
ISBN 10: 0520259335
ISBN 13: 9780520259331