San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo by Edward Fowler

San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo

Edward Fowler

229 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. The city's largest day-labor market, notorious for its population of casual laborers, drunks, gamblers, and v...

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