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Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Alisa.
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese literature--Japan--Tokyo--History and criticism.
- Japanese literature.
- Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Commuting in literature.
- Railroad travel in literature.
- Commuting--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.
- Commuting.
- Railroad travel--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.
- Railroad travel.
- Local transit--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.
- Local transit.
- Local transit--Social aspects.
- History.
- Commuting--Social aspects.
- Tokyo (Japan)--Social life and customs--1912-1945.
- Tokyo (Japan).
- Tokyo (Japan)--In literature.
- Japan--Tokyo.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English
- ISBN:
- 9780804771443
- 0804771448
- 9780804771450
- 0804771456
- OCLC:
- 630480127
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