Nanpa is the Japanese art of girl-hunting. This is a guide to Nanpa and also the account of one man's five year odyssey into this world. 'The Beach' in Japan, ‘The Rum Dairy’ for the Far East, a profound expose on expat life in the Land of the Rising Yen. "This is the book Dostoevsky would have written if he'd been an English teacher in Japan... and not such a good writer." - Ed Lake