What price of modernization?
I read this after I had visited Japan and I noticed many of the problems Kerr discusses on my visit also - the tangle of exposed electical wiring is especially ugly. One can understand the desire to modernize, with all its' comforts when you visit traditional, unheated Japanese homes but it is sad to see so many traditional houses and crafts, ect, dying out with the older generation. A very interested, well informed book. I wish I had read it before I went.
