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Paperback Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan Book

ISBN: 0824883136

ISBN13: 9780824883133

Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan

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A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan's hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves--something not attempted before in scholarship on this era. He begins by explaining the causes behind...

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