Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles

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Freedman, Alisa. "Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles". Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2010, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804778572-003

Freedman, A. (2010). Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles. In Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road (pp. 1-26). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804778572-003

Freedman, A. 2010. Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles. Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804778572-003

Freedman, Alisa. "Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles" In Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, 1-26. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804778572-003

Freedman A. Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles. In: Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road. Redwood City: Stanford University Press; 2010. p.1-26. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804778572-003

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles 1
1. Eyewitness Accounts: Observations of Salarymen and Schoolgirls on Tokyo’s First Trains 27
2. Boys Who Feared Trains: University Students, Railway Trauma, and the Health of the Nation 68
3. Shinjuku Station Sketches: Constructing an Icon of Modern Daily Life 116
4. From Modern Girls in Motion to Figures of Nostalgia: “Bus Girls” in the Popular Imagination 173 173
The Corpse Introducer by Kawabata Yasunari 225
Notes 267
Bibliography 299
Index 319

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles 1
1. Eyewitness Accounts: Observations of Salarymen and Schoolgirls on Tokyo’s First Trains 27
2. Boys Who Feared Trains: University Students, Railway Trauma, and the Health of the Nation 68
3. Shinjuku Station Sketches: Constructing an Icon of Modern Daily Life 116
4. From Modern Girls in Motion to Figures of Nostalgia: “Bus Girls” in the Popular Imagination 173 173
The Corpse Introducer by Kawabata Yasunari 225
Notes 267
Bibliography 299
Index 319

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