Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road - Freedman, Alisa; Yasunari, Kawabata 1899-1972 (Stanford, CA Stanford University Press, 2011)
Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles -- Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains -- Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation -- Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life -- From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination -- The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: 20th Century (1901-2000); Travel; Tokyo (Japan)