Japan: a description. -- Japanese shapes. -- Japanese rhythms. -- Tokyo, the impermanent capital. -- The 'real' Disneyland. -- The city home. -- Walking in Tokyo. -- The kapital of kitsch. -- Tokyo style. -- Gesture as language. -- Signs and symbols. -- A vocabulary of taste. -- The tongue of fashion. -- Notes on the Noh. -- The Kyogen. -- Japan's avant-garde theater. -- The strata of Japanese drama. -- Women in Japanese cinema. -- The Japanese eroduction. -- A definition of the Japanese film. -- Attitudes toward Tokyo on film. -- New ways of viewing. -- TV: the presentational image. -- Mizushobai: the art of pleasing. -- The Japanese kiss. -- Pachinko. -- Walkman, Manga and society. -- The state of the arts