Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan” (Duke University Press, 2013)
May 23, 2014
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“[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man who starved to death in an apartment he had occupied for 20 years. His is just one of many voices of the precarity of everyday life and death that...
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