Hooked - Asako Yuzuki will be tested to the

will be tested to the limit

a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets

The modest apartment on Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit

they succumb to every vice and live only to satiate their desires

his poems created new ways of conveying existential doubt

Hooked - Asako Yuzuki will be tested to theEriko's life appears perfect devoted parents, pristine apartment and a high flying job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shokos posts about convenience