Adrift in Tokyo teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: hed never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation & sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights Twigger sets out to cleanse his body & his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts & the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis & fractured collarbones. In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern the ultra-traditionalism ritual & violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls nightclubs & scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century to provide an entertaining & captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan.