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Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake

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 | #2089643 in Books |  1990-03-24 |  1990-03-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x6.75 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 362 pages

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||11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| A Modern Social History of Tokyo|By A Customer|Compared to "High City, Low City", this book is not nearly as enjoyable, only because the post-war history of the city is slightly less enjoyable to read.My only gripe with the book is that Sidensticker has an annoying tendency to translate some place names into English. They would be better left in Japanese romanization.
T|From Publishers Weekly|As this vibrant, intimately detailed volume opens in September 1923, Tokyo is rebuilding after a devastating earthquake and fires; Japan is run by the Taisho emperor, a mentally incapacitated figurehead. Tokyo would rebuild a second time:

The Great Earthquake of 1923 left much of Tokyo desolate. Shitamachi, the Low City, heart of Tokyo's cultural life for centuries, was a smoking ruin--hundreds of blocks of wooden dwellings, teahouses, and entertainment quarters gone forever. Yet Tokyo was a city that would not die. Here, in his brilliant sequel to "Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake," Edward Seidensticker carries the story of this irrepressible metropolis forward to the present, showin...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake   |  Edward G. Seidensticker. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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