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Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan
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CONTENTS
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[These chapter need to be checked to include errata and some tiny changes that were made. - DC]

including: cover, praise for the book, about the book, about the author, title page, publishing info page, dedication, epigraph or opening vignette, pronunciation of Japanese terms, notes.

Contents - you're there now.

PREFACE

1 COMING

SOUNDS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

2 SETTLING

KOBASHI TO THE RESCUE

OLD SCROLLS, NEW MATCHES

JENGLISH AND ENGLESE

LAUNCH AND LUNCH

TEA TIME

JAKUSHIN ON THE BOTTOM

3 WALKING

TAKUHATSU, “TO ENTRUST THE BOWL”

LEARNING THE BUREAUCRACY

MOTHER'S DAY CARD

KOBASHI BLOWS IT

TAIZEN SMOOTHS IT OUT

A LETTER & A TABLE

A WALK WITH FATHER SAM

4 LIVING

A STITCH IN SPACE

LECTURE PREP

KNOCKIN' 'EM DEAD

IT’S THE ENVIRONMENT, STUPA

THE GOOD WITCH

DOUBTING THE SUN'S SON

MOO IF YA LOVE BUDDHA

BURYING GARBAGE

THE NINJA AND THE CLOCK

THE BODHISATTVA'S VOW

SAVING THE SALAMANDER

MR. TEN SQUARE FEET

SHUKO TELLS ALL

OUR DUST RUNNETH OVER

5 LOOKING

GANGSTERS IN TH'MIDST

6 DANCING

PREPARATION FOR HOYO

ATTRACTING CROWDS OF DERISION

SERGEANT IN ROBES

INCIPIENT FRUIT OF LABOR

LSD NO, WHALE MEAT YES

7 GOING

EDDIE DUCHIN IN THE POST OFFICE

8 GONE BEYOND

EPILOGUE