''God Hates Japan'' (神は日本を憎んでる, ''Kami wa Nihon wo Nikunderu'', in Japanese) is a 2001 novel by
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller '' Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized the terms ''Generation X'' and ''McJ ...
. It was released solely in
Japan and has little English text in it. The book was published by
Kadokawa Shoten and illustrated by Michael Howatson.
The story focuses on characters lost in the malaise that swept Japanese culture after the
economic downturn in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It also depicts the way some of these characters lived in the shadow of the 1995
sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
The was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three lines of the Tokyo Metro (then ''Teito Rapid ...
.
References
External links
Author's page about the book
Novels by Douglas Coupland
2001 Canadian novels
Novels set in Japan
Japan in non-Japanese culture
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