“Tokyo Junkie”: Robert Whiting’s Memoir of a Capital Life

Whiting closely followed the exploits of baseball superstars like Oh Sadaharu, left, and Nagashima Shigeo of the Tokyo Giants, seen here training in 1967. (© Sankei Shimbun)

Yakuza saunter through the streets of Shinjuku’s Kabukichō in 1971. Whiting has closely studied the gangsters who rule Tokyo’s underworld. (© Katsumi Watanabe/Andrew Roth Gallery)

Rain falls on neon-lit Kabukichō in 1971. (© Sankei Shimbun)