Japrocksampler: How the Post-war Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll is a book written by author and musician Julian Cope and published by Bloomsbury on 3 September 2007.

But Reynolds also argued, "If Cope's exaltation of Les Rallizes Denudes seems like mystique-building covering up simple underachievement [...], elsewhere his evocations [...] are enticing and convincing.

"[2] Helen Zaltzman praised it in The Observer as exhaustive but said that "one senses that despite his intense interest in the subject, Cope is padding out his material because there were simply not enough bands in the movement with which he is concerned.

[...] Though fans will no doubt relish the jaunt through the Archdrude's mind, less committed readers may be put off by his tendency to pomposity, repetition and leaden pace.

"[3] Michel Faber wrote, "Cope's descriptions are tantalising but no replacement for hearing the music itself, so the book's usefulness depends on whether it inspires you to rush off in search of [classic albums] [...] Less adventurous readers may simply enjoy the anecdotes about a host of chancers, mad idealists, Buddhist gangsters, Monkees clones [...] and bonafide geniuses."