Publisher's Synopsis
A chronicle of two trips to Japan; the first a week before the World Cup in 2002, the second a year later. Looking at another culture with no agenda, Haynes develops an awareness of his own society by comparing it to that which he finds in the Far East, inadvertently taking on an informal sociological perspective, all told with tongue firmly in cheek. Haynes describes being mistaken for a hooligan (or fooligan' as the locals mispronounced it), even while seeking out pastry shops and being sworn in as a Girl Guide in a Kyoto bar.
