In "Angry White Pyjamas", Robert Twigger blends the ancient with the modern
- the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy)
with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the
1990s - to provide a glimpse of contemporary Japan.Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to
pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about
himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and
sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger, guided by his
flatmates Fat Frank and Chris, sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not
knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese
martial arts, and the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the
Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against
blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones.; In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the
modern - the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training
academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life
in the nineties - to provide an entertaining and captivating glimpse of
contemporary Japan.
