Good start with some misunderstandings

Coffee and cafe were introduced in Japan from Europe and the United States. Since the linguistic and cultural barriers had prevented the inflow of the foreign coffee culture, it had developed in Japan independently from the Euro-American style. This is the first book that introduced the coffee culture in Japan to the world. The historic-cultural analysis like this book is rarely published even in Japan. I appreciate the author’s "discovery of coffee life in Japan" and this publication.
In this book, however, the golden era of the Japanese coffee is not, nearly not at all elucidated. It was the largest boom in Japan occured during 1970’s-early 80’s. The number of "kissa-ten (cafe in Japan)" was increased more than 120,000 in 1985, and diminished gradually until the bubble burst in 1991 (independently-operated cafes are generally increased associated with hiring slump during economic slowdown and are decreased in good time in Japan). The competition among cafes increased the