About The Great Daikon Caper
Yuki Dubois, a French pastry chef, sets up a pop-up stall at Kawasaki's Kanamara Matsuri, a festival celebrating the phallus and raising funds for HIV research. The festival's centerpiece, a giant carved daikon radish ("The Great Daikon Phallus"), disappears. With the help of Kenji, a shrine volunteer, Yuki investigates, encountering a cast of quirky characters: Ms.
Sato, a competitive mochi vendor; Barty Higgins, an American tourist obsessed with phallic souvenirs; and Mrs. Fujiwara, an elderly woman with poor eyesight. Clues like a blue feather and a unique scent lead them to suspect various individuals, but the true culprit is revealed.
The daikon, slightly chewed but intact, is recovered, and the festival continues, the auction exceeding expectations.
