
China Daily, June 7Junichi Watanabe, whose tales of middle-aged adulterous lust have made him a household name in Asia, has a new collection of essays that purport to explain the nature of husbands.
"Monogamy is imperfect: an unfair equalizer. It is a system of doling out alms to coarse, impotent men, although it does provide stability for raising progeny," says Junichi Watanabe, one of Japan's best-selling writers...
...The "mid-life crisis" exploded to the full his novel "A Lost Paradise," which tells the tale of a claustrophobic extramarital love...... the forces that are pulling them apart, they resolve to take concrete measures that will insure they will be together forever - double suicide immediately following sex. The only way to maintain the highest passion for love, says Watanabe, is to die.