Yokohama street life

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<span><span>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. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Title Yokohama street life : the precarious career of a Japanese day laborer / Tom Gill.
Publisher Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
Creation Date 2015
Notes Includes index.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Kimitsu Nishikawa and the Town of Kotobuki, 1993-1995
2 Kimitsu and Kotobuki, 2004-2007
3 The 2007 Conversations
4 Kimitsu and Kotobuki to the Present Day
5 Commentary
Index
About the Author
Series Asia World
Extent 1 online resource (163 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010711832105171
MARC RECORDS
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