Title Down and out in late Meiji Japan / James L. Huffman

Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents The slum setting : moving in and settling down -- Earning a living : making and building things -- Earning a living : movers and servers -- Making a life : at home -- Shadows and storms : endurance -- The sun also shone : embracing life -- Poverty on the farm : a comparative look -- Poverty abroad : Hawaiʻi's sugar fields Summary This work examines the daily lives of Japan's very poor-the kaso shakai or underclass-during the last half of the Meiji era (1868-1912). Focusing on urban slums (hinminkutsu), it attempts to understand how poor people themselves experienced life Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2018) Subject Urban poor -- Japan -- History Urban poor -- Japan -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan. Urban poor. Urban poor -- Social conditions. SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069489 Subject Japan. Genre/Form Electronic books History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780824874841 0824874846 9780824874858 0824874854 9780824877866 0824877861

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