Ethan Howard graduates from college and decides to fulfill his dream of teaching in Japan. He is shy and inexperienced with women, but gradually learns that Japan has a totally different approach to relationships. He learns the language, the culture, the sights -- and how to enjoy and ultimately dominate the many women who chase after him. When he is asked to take one woman as his wife and another in the ancient role of concubine, what will his cultural upbringing lead him to decide? This novel explores many of the actual cultural places and events that Japan has to offer, as well as the diverse sexual pleasures of the Land of the 'Rising Sun'.