Writing about Japan's "Have-Nots"
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English - September 22, 2022 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsArts japanese literature books fiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Post-bubble Japan.
The history of socially-conscious Japanese literature.
And Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station, a powerful examination of Tokyo by one of the most invisible people imaginable—the ghost of a homeless day laborer.
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