num_pages: 197
description: Born in Fukushima in 1933 the same year as the Emperor Kazus life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japans Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station  the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazus life in Tokyo began as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Olympics and later where he ended his days living in the parks vast homeless villages traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics.Akutagawa-award-winning author Y Miri uses her outsiders perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japans most vulnerable people.
language: English
title: Tokyo Ueno Station
publisher: Tilted Axis Press