Charlie Brooker in Tokyo: 'In Japan geeks are comfortably mainstream'

3 February 2012, 3:21 pm

Video game aficionado Charlie Brooker makes a pilgrimage to Japan, a mecca for electronics, games and comics, and feels right at home among Tokyo's unfathomable futuristic madness • Browse our Tokyo city guide • See our immersive video experiment • Play classic games in our arcade People often cite admirably high-minded reasons for wanting to visit a specific foreign country. An interest in ...... Read More »

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