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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 we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gill, Tom, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Colección:AsiaWorld.
Temas:
2000-2099
Day laborers > Japan > Yokohama-shi > Social conditions.
Working poor > Japan > Yokohama-shi > Social conditions.
Journaliers > Japon > Yokohama > Conditions sociales.
Travailleurs pauvres > Japon > Yokohama > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Economic history
Social conditions
Yokohama-shi (Japan) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Yokohama-shi (Japan) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Japan > Yokohama-shi
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781498511995
1498511996
1498512003
9781498512008

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