![]() ![]() To make ends meet, she works at a bento shop, where her neighbor Ishigami, a genius mathematics professor, often drops in to buy lunch. ![]() ![]() Yasuko is a divorcee and a single mother, who is trying to elude her abusive ex-husband, while raising her daughter Misato. Unlike conventional mysteries, the murderer’s identity is revealed early on. The Devotion of Suspect X does not disappoint as either a riveting page-turner or as a short dive into urban Japan. As Douglas McGray puts it in his brilliant feature on “Japan’s Gross National Cool,” Japanese culture – its anime characters, manga comics, fashion labels, pop-stars, Zen outlook and management methods – infiltrates other markets with a seduction of its own making. Then its seeming insularity from the world that’s contradicted by its embrace of American brands. After all, Japan always seems to embody certain particularities – the crafted precision of its Haiku poems and ikebana arrangements, the grittiness of its neon-drenched cities, the slick ruthlessness of its gangsters or Yakuza. I’ve been particularly fascinated by Japanese crime fiction. ![]()
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