Strange but True Stories from Japan
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780804821308
Subjects: Short stories; True Crime; True Crime / Espionage; History: World; English; Japan; Asia - Japan; Criminology; General; Murder - General
First sentence: In 1945 Americans arriving in Japan learned that a Japanese woman walked three paces behind her husband when outside the home, and that a husband could divorce his wife simply by submitting a written statement of divorce consisting of only 3 1/2 lines (called a mikudari-han).