Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road

Publication Data

• Title Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road
• Author Alisa Freedman
• Publisher Stanford University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Stanford, Calif.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Japanese literature :: Japan :: Tokyo :: History and criticism
• Japanese literature :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• Commuting in literature
• Railroad travel in literature
• Commuting :: Social aspects :: Japan :: Tokyo :: History :: 20th century
• Railroad travel :: Social aspects :: Japan :: Tokyo :: History :: 20th century
• Local transit :: Social aspects :: Japan :: Tokyo :: History :: 20th century
• Tokyo (Japan) :: Social life and customs :: 1912-1945
• Tokyo (Japan) :: In literature
• Tokyo (Japan)

Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road by Alisa Freedman. ISBN 9780804771450. Published by Stanford University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.