Tokyo Nights Author:Donald Richie Novel. Revised edition of book first published in London in 1988. Six characters, a bar madame, her patron, the patron's old friend, a foreign businessman, a young hostess who yearns to have her own bar and her naive friend who is perhaps more than willing to learn. Fiction but so typical of life in Ginza bars and clubs and in the mizu shobai (w... more »ater trade) business anywhere in Japan.« less