Volume 45, Number 11 · June 25, 1998
Down and Out in East Tokyo
By Ian Buruma
San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo
by Edward Fowler
Cornell University Press, 262 pp., $29.95
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life
by Sheldon Garon
Princeton University Press, 313 pp., $24.95
If you start walking from the former execution ground behind Minami Senju station in the east of Tokyo, along the 'Street of Bones,' then across Namidabashi ('Bridge of Tears'), and down through Nihonzutsumi toward Asakusa, ending up in Imado, you will pick up some of the more pungent smells of Japanese social history.
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