San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo
by:
Edward Fowler (author)
Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. The city's largest day-labor market, notorious for its population of casual laborers, drunks, gamblers, and vagrants, has been home for more that half...
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Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. The city's largest day-labor market, notorious for its population of casual laborers, drunks, gamblers, and vagrants, has been home for more that half vagrants, has been home for more than half a century to anywhere from five to fifteen thousand men who cluster in the mornings at a crossroads called Namidabash (Bridge of Tears) in hopes of getting work.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801485701 (0801485703)
ASIN: 801485703
Publish date: August 13th 1998
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
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