Sometime in the spring of 2014, a friend of mine who works for a small publishing company asked if I would write a book about the Japanese music scene for him.
"Sure," I told him, "I'll have it ready in six months."
It's now 2½ years later and I find myself left with two things: a newly published book and a huge amount of respect for those authors who have covered this topic before me.
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