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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Prologue | 1 | |
| 1 | Setting | 9 |
| A Tour of San'ya | 16 | |
| Two San'ya Landmarks | 26 | |
| The Morning Labor Market | 30 | |
| Edo, Tokyo, San'ya | 35 | |
| The San'ya Doyagai | 43 | |
| An Evening at the Palace | 48 | |
| 2 | Lives | 53 |
| Day Laborers | 53 | |
| Union Members and Sympathizers | 88 | |
| Proprietors and Shopkeepers | 98 | |
| Bureaucrats | 109 | |
| Missionaries | 116 | |
| Other Voices | 121 | |
| 3 | Activism | 131 |
| Labor Union Workshop | 131 | |
| Union Planning Session | 137 | |
| Maria Restaurant | 140 | |
| Citizens' Patrol | 144 | |
| 4 | Rites | 151 |
| Fall and Winter Festivals | 152 | |
| Year-Forgetting Party | 158 | |
| Requiem for a Yama Man | 160 | |
| Ridge-Raising Ceremony | 166 | |
| Farewells | 169 | |
| 5 | Work | 175 |
| Epilogue | 225 | |
| Interviewing: Memory as Oral History | 231 | |
| Glossary | 239 | |
| Suggested Readings | 245 | |
| General Index | 253 | |
| Index of Pseudonyms | 261 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Carmon Thompson
reviewed San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo on January 18, 2010
San'ya Blues
A look at day laborers in Tokyo during the height of Japan's economic boom from 1989 to 1991. The best part is the "Day Laborers" section of the "Lives" chapter, in which the author presents short monologues of what life is like for many of the men in San'ya. The pieces on labor union activities are dull and the second half of the author's account of working as a day laborer is strange, but overall this is a worthwhile, if slow, read. It is depressing to see that there were so many downtrodden people even in Japan's best days, but it's also depressing to read that these transients with limited skills and education still got paid more per day than I do.
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