{"id":16571,"date":"2026-04-20T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=16571"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:06:00","slug":"pachinko-man-price-set-ecw-press-catalogue-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=16571","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PACHINKO MAN&#8217; Price Set; ECW Press Catalogue Copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concussion Inc. readers can reserve their direct, author-autographed copies by remitting $24.95 in U.S. currency to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:paypal@muchnick.net\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paypal@muchnick.net<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The price includes free shipping. (Canadian orders, add $10 for shipping; all other foreign orders, add $20.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is the ECW Press catalogue copy for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PACHINKO MAN<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Dropping into the world of <\/b><b><i>KPop Demon Hunters <\/i><\/b><b>and the \u201cKorean wave\u201d is the first English biography <\/b><b>published in the West of professional wrestling superstar Rikid\u014dzan\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>He was Japan\u2019s biggest celebrity \u2014 second only to the emperor. But his public image was a lie.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Pachinko Man<\/i><\/b><b> reveals the man behind the myth, and the forces that shaped him.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>As he pummeled American bad guys in the ring in the 1950s, Rikid\u014dzan was a cultural phenomenon and a symbol of the defeated Japan\u2019s restoration of postwar pride. But his birth name wasn\u2019t actually Mitsuhiro Momota. In a fiercely guarded secret, he was born Kim Sim-rak, part of the persecuted minority from the former imperial occupied territory of Korea. Moreover, he was from <\/b><b><i>North <\/i><\/b><b>Korea, the communist bastion locked in Cold War conflict with U.S.-aligned South Korea.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Pachinko Man<\/i><\/b><b> is a riveting story of this sport\u2019s manipulations of fact and fiction, along with its deceptively important relationship to larger political and cultural forces. Legendary wrestling historian Irvin Muchnick documents the birth of puroresu (Japanese pro wrestling) and its passionate swap of official storylines with the American brand.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Rikid\u014dzan\u2019s instinctive genius in his genre, along with his huge appetites and human foibles, made for a titanic impact before his 1963 murder by a fellow traveler in the Yakuza, Japan\u2019s organized crime syndicate.<\/b><b> For the first time, North American readers can fully grasp the legacy of a man who didn\u2019t just transform a sport \u2014 he helped shape a nation\u2019s identity.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>ADVANCE PRAISE<\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><b>\u201cThis biography of Rikid\u014dzan is an important and long overdue contribution to the study of Japanese pop culture and Korean diaspora, and Irvin Muchnick is just the author to bring this amazing story to life.\u201d \u2014 Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of <\/b><b><i>The Orphan Master\u2019s Son<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><b>\u201cAn impressive, knowing biography of an iconic, legendary ring figure in Japan and Korea, and a primer on the world of professional wrestling at the same time \u2014 densely researched, rich in detail, brimming with fascinating facts, memorable tidbits and insights.\u201d \u2014 Robert Whiting, author of <\/b><b><i>Tokyo Underworld<\/i><\/b><b> and <\/b><b><i>Tokyo Junkie<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concussion Inc. readers can reserve their direct, author-autographed copies by remitting $24.95 in U.S. currency to paypal@muchnick.net. 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