{"id":8897,"date":"2019-09-06T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2019-09-06T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:21:03","slug":"tokyo-ueno-station-by-yu-miri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/tokyo-ueno-station-by-yu-miri\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of Japanese novels that seem to get English translations can be quite similar, addressing universal themes of love or loneliness through outsider characters. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s a reflection on a society where the need to conform to norms is stronger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is similar, but very much different. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ZDWbs9\"><em>Tokyo Ueno Station<\/em><\/a> and the park alongside it, is the setting for this story about Kazu, a man who was born in the thirties but who&#8217;s life fell apart until he ended up homeless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kazu takes much of what life has dealt him in his stride, but things have changed for the worse, and he struggles in this new world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story is told via flashbacks to other times, but we return to the park where he has somehow ended up &#8211; being turfed out of it at times, before the homeless can move back in. The Emperor shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to see homeless people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a timely tale &#8211; with work going on in the background ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of Japanese novels that seem to get English translations can be quite similar, addressing universal themes of love or loneliness through outsider characters. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s a reflection on a society where the need to conform to norms is stronger. This book is similar, but very much different. Tokyo Ueno Station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}