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<p>Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. Working as a day laborer himself, Fowler kept a diary of his experiences. The resulting oral histories, juxtaposed with Fowler's narrative and diary entries, bring to life a community on the margins of contemporary Japan.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Anyone who believes that Japanese society is a homogenous, well-oiled machinea stereotype often sounded in American mediawould do well to read this gritty, firsthand account of life for day-laborers in Tokyo's shunned ghetto district, San'ya. Fowler, who teaches Japanese literature and film at UC-Irvine, visited San'ya repeatedly between 1989 and 1991 and lived and worked there for six weeks in the summer of 1991. His descriptive powers and cultural understanding offer a vivid context for the oral accounts of San'ya inhabitants describing their personal histories and daily lives. For the roughly 7500 day-laborers living in San'ya (many of ethnically mixed origins, like Chinese or Filipino), the district is as much a "state of mind" as a slum. Without banks or educational facilities above the

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Author

Fowler, Edward

Publisher

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801485701

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Sociology, Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14