Sometime in the spring of 2014, a friend of mine who works for a small publishing company asked if I would write a book about the Japanese music scene for him.

¡°Sure,¡± I told him, ¡°I¡¯ll have it ready in six months.¡±

It¡¯s now 2? years later and I find myself left with two things: a newly published book and a huge amount of respect for those authors who have covered this topic before me.