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A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan's hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves-something not attempted before in scholarship on this era.

Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 8/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824883133, 978-0824883133
      ISBN10: 0824883136
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      Book Synopsis
      A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan's hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves-something not attempted before in scholarship on this era.

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