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Tokyo Ueno Station (JR Ueno-eki koen-guchi)
Miri Yū (Yu Miri), Morgan Giles (translation)A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations.
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family & has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, & now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu’s life in the city began & ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics & ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami & shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics.
Through Kazu’s eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him & learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss & society’s inequalities & constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty & grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan’s most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times & a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
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Yu Miri (published elsewhere in English as Miri Yu) is amulti-award-winning Japanese author of Korean descent from Yokohama. Her work engages with topics such as Japan’s high suicide rate,the neglect of children, & the troubles faced by those of arguably ambiguous national identity, such as the zainichi kankokujin group (ethnic Koreans born & raised in Japan). Yu has won numerous awards, including the coveted Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for Kazoku Shinema (Family Cinema), & has a vast readership in both Japan & South Korea, with her works being translated into several other languages.
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