Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780804771450 (pbk.)
- Yasunari, Kawabata, Shitai shōkainin. English
- Japanese literature -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History and criticism
- Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Commuting in literature
- Railroad travel in literature
- Commuting -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century
- Railroad travel -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century
- Local transit -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century
- Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Tokyo (Japan) -- In literature
- 895.6093558 FRE 23 008744
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles -- Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains -- Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation -- Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life -- From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination -- The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.
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