The Last Children of Tokyo Condition:Like New Taking its title from 17th-century

Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho's travel journal

Professor Koh examines both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios

With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on

ashe boasts

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June

The Last Children of Tokyo Condition:Like New Taking its title from 17th-centuryYoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe prompted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great grandson born frail and prone to sickness might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's