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Author Freedman, Alisa.

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

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and index.
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.
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Subject Japanese literature -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History and criticism.
Japanese literature.
Japan -- Tokyo.
Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Commuting in literature.
Commuting in literature.
Railroad travel in literature.
Railroad travel in literature.
Commuting -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century.
Commuting -- Social aspects.
History.
Commuting.
Railroad travel -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century.
Local transit -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century.
Local transit -- Social aspects.
Local transit.
Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1945.
Tokyo (Japan) -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English.
Other Form: Print version: Freedman, Alisa. Tokyo in transit. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011 9780804771443 (DLC) 2010024486 (OCoLC)630480127
ISBN 9780804778572 (electronic book)
0804778574 (electronic book)
9780804771443 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804771448 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804771450 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0804771456 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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