Tokyo in transit Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.

Author/creator Freedman, Alisa
Format Electronic
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
Descriptionxiii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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. --1912-1945.
Tokyo (Japan)--In literature.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010024486
ISBN9780804771443 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804771450 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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