A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer

Author/Contributor(s):	Shiro, Oyama
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2005
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"San'ya," Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for 12 years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. In this fascinating book, he portrays himself as an outsider both from mainstream society and from his adopted home.