Yokohama street life :: the precarious career of a Japanese day laborer /

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 we...

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1. Verfasser: Gill, Tom, 1960-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Schriftenreihe:AsiaWorld.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781498511995
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1498512003
9781498512008