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This book is a one-man ethnography that seeks to understand life at the bottom of Japanese society through the personality of day laborer and street-philosopher Kimitsu Nishikawa. Through interviews with Kimitsu, Tom Gill analyzes life in the Yokohama slum district of Kotobuki-a district in which welfare has come to replace labor.

Day laborers --- Working poor --- Poor --- Working class --- Day workers --- Temporary employees --- Social conditions. --- Employment --- Yokohama-shi (Japan) --- Yokohama (Japan) --- Yokohama --- 横浜市 (Japan) --- City of Yokohama (Japan) --- Jokohama (Japan) --- Горад Іакагама (Japan) --- Horad Iakahama (Japan) --- Іакагама (Japan) --- Iakahama (Japan) --- Йокохама (Japan) --- Ĭokokhama (Japan) --- Γιοκοχάμα (Japan) --- Giokochama (Japan) --- Jokohamo (Japan) --- Иокогамæ (Japan) --- Iokogamæ (Japan) --- יוקוהמה (Japan) --- Yoḳohamah (Japan) --- Иокогама (Japan) --- Iokogama (Japan) --- Ёкохама (Japan) --- Ëkokhama (Japan) --- Ёкохама хот (Japan) --- Ëkokhama khot (Japan) --- Иокогаме (Japan) --- Iokogame (Japan) --- Јокохама (Japan) --- Ëkoḣama (Japan) --- Ĭokohama (Japan) --- יאקאהאמע (Japan) --- Yoḳohame (Japan) --- Iokoama (Japan) --- Tsurumi-chō (Japan) --- Kanagawa-machi (Kanagawa-ken, Japan) --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- J4351 --- J4390.13 --- J4352 --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- labor and employment systems --- Japan: Economy and industry -- local economic history and geography -- Kantō -- Kanagawa prefecture (Sagami) --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- social conditions --- E-books

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Standing on a Tokyo bridge waiting for a friend, Akaki, a middle-aged Japanese man, indulges in reminiscences that recall his arrival in Tokyo twenty years earlier, his childhood in northern Korea under Japanese rule, and the impact of the trauma of war.

Japanese literature --- Translations into English. --- Japan --- Fiction. --- J5933 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose by individual authors (1868- ) --- Japan - Fiction

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Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites around the disaster zone. The contributors present the survivors' struggles in their own words: from enduring life in shelters and temporary housing, through re-creating the fishing industry, to rebuildin

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011--Social aspects. --- Nuclear power plants--Accidents--Japan--Fukushima-ken. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General. --- Social Welfare & Social Work. --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011--Social aspects.

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Globalization --- Social change --- Japan --- Social conditions