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Writing about Japan's "Have-Nots": Yu Miri and Tokyo Ueno Station
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In this episode…
Post-bubble Japan.
The history of socially-conscious Japanese literature.
And Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station, a powerful examination of Tokyo by one of the most invisible people imaginable—the ghost of a homeless day laborer.
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