Tokyo in transit
Subtitle: Japanese culture on the rails and road
By: Alisa Freedman
Contributors: Yasunari, Kawabata, 1899-1972
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780804771443; 9780804771450
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles; title: Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains; title: Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation; title: Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life; title: From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination; title: The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.