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Hardcover San'ya Blues Book
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ISBN: 0801432472

ISBN13: 9780801432477

San'ya Blues

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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 vagrants, has been home for more than half a century to anywhere from five to fifteen thousand men who cluster in the mornings at a crossroads called Namidabashi (Bridge of Tears) in hopes of getting work...

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Asia Cultural History Japan Minority Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Urban

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