Kimitsu Nishikawa and the town of Kotobuki, 1993-1995 -- Kimitsu and Kotobuki, 2004-2007 -- The 2007 conversations -- Kimitsu and Kotobuki to the present day -- Commentary
Summary
This book is a one-man ethnography that seeks to understand life at the bottom of Japanese society through the personality of day laborer and street-philosopher Kimitsu Nishikawa. Through interviews with Kimitsu, Tom Gill analyzes life in the Yokohama slum district of Kotobuki-a district in which welfare has come to replace labor
