Looks like friend and long-time Japan resident Mark Schreiber has another hit on his hands. His latest effort, Tabloid Tokyo, was the No. 1 selling "nonfiction on Japan" book at Tower Records in Tokyo recently. The book, compiled by Mark, features translations of some of Japan's wildest tabloid and weekly magazine articles. Mark also edited Tokyo Confidential and has written or contributed to too many publications to list here.

Mark, from Pittsburgh, has been living in Japan since 1965, when I was still in diapers. He is a walking encyclopedia of street culture (he's also fluent in Mandarin, for what it's worth). He is a superb translator and has an uncanny knack for the offbeat, whether it's in finding the wildest stories in Japan's weeklies or in his quest to find someone who had actually dined on monkey brains.

Congrats, Mark, on another hit.