Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer 9781498512008

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Автор: Gill Tom
Название: Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer
ISBN: 9781498512008
Издательство: Lexington Books
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1498512003
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 158
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 15.04.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the Japanese ghetto, a self-educated philosopher whose thoughts on life in the slums, on post-war Japanese society and on more abstract intellectual concerns are conveyed in a series of conversations with British anthropologist Tom Gill, whose friendship with Kimitsu spans more than two decades. For Kimitsu, as for many of his fellow day laborers at the bottom of Japanese society, offers none of the comforting distractions of marriage, family life, or a long-term career in a settled workplace. It leads him through existential philosophy towards Buddhist mysticism as he fills the time between days of hard manual labor with visits to second-hand bookshops in search of enlightenment. The book also portrays Kimitsus living environment, a Yokohama slum district called Kotobuki. Kotobuki is a doya-gai-a slum inhabited mainly by men, somewhat similar to the skid row districts that used to be common in American cities. Traditionally these men have earned a basic living by working as day laborers, but the decline in employment opportunities has forced many of them into welfare dependence or homelessness. Kimitsus life and thought are framed by an account of the changing way of life in Kotobuki, a place that has gradually been transformed from a casual laboring market to a large, shambolical welfare center. In Kotobuki the national Japanese issues of an aging workforce and economic decline set in much earlier than elsewhere, leading to a dramatic illustration of the challenges facing the Japanese welfare state.

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer, Gill Tom