Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer

by Tom Gill

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498512003
• ISBN13: 9781498512008
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"