Title Tokyo in Transit : Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages) Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles; 1. Eyewitness Accounts: Observations of Salarymen and Schoolgirls on Tokyo's First Trains; 2. Boys Who Feared Trains: University Students, Railway Trauma, and the Health of the Nation; 3. Shinjuku Station Sketches: Constructing an Icon of Modern Daily Life; 4. From Modern Girls in Motion to Figures of Nostalgia: "Bus Girls" in the Popular Imagination; The Corpse Introducer by Kawabata Yasunari; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism Notes Print version record Subject 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 Commuting in literature Commuting -- Social aspects Japanese literature Literature Local transit -- Social aspects Manners and customs Railroad travel in literature SUBJECT Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008952 Tokyo (Japan) -- In literature Subject Japan -- Tokyo Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804778572 0804778574

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