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A Man With No Talents is the story of an "everyday" Japanese man (normal upbringing, family, education etc) .

A Man With No Talents is the story of an "everyday" Japanese man (normal upbringing, family, education etc) who follows the salaryman route - college, job @ some firm. Oyama takes us on a journey into a harsh world and introduces the many characters he lives and works with each day. I know very little about Japanese culture, however, the translator does a good job of filling the reader in on specific elements that would otherwise be lost in translation (with a series of notes).

A Man with No Talents book. the author is a man who worked as a day laborer in tokyo. he'd done so for 13 years before he penned this book. San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one. and it wasn't some misfortune or a lost job that landed him in that position-he chose it quite freely despite other opportunities. he'd had "normal" jobs for years, and decided that he just wasn't made for the salaryman life.

San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. After completing a university education, Oyama entered the business workforce and appeared destined to walk the same path as many a "salaryman. A singular temperament and a deep loathing of conformity, however, altered his career trajectory dramatically. Oyama left his job and moved to Osaka, where he lived for three years

Oyama Shiro, Edward Fowler.

Oyama Shiro, Edward Fowler. San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood.

San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing.

Authors: Oyama Shiro Edward Fowler

Authors: Oyama Shiro Edward Fowler. Details about A Man with No Talents: San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. The book was published in Japan in 2000 after Oyama had submitted his manuscript?on a lark, he confesses?for one of Japan's top literary awards, the Kaiko Takeshi Prize.

Oyama Shiro is not merely a close observer and a good writer. He is a highly intelligent individual. Moving according to convention through the life stages of a postwar Japanese male, Oyama finished high school and completed a four-year course at a Japanese university

Oyama Shiro is not merely a close observer and a good writer. Moving according to convention through the life stages of a postwar Japanese male, Oyama finished high school and completed a four-year course at a Japanese university. He then entered a white-collar firm and embarked on a proper work career. He finally dropped out of the corporate rat race completely to sink into the world of casual labor

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Shiro Oyama, A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer, trans. Edward Fowler (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005 ). A more literal translation of the Japanese title (San’ya gakeppuchi nikki) would be Diary on the precipice in San’ya. As far as is known, A Man with No Talents is the only work Oyama has published. 4. Edward Fowler, San’ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), 3. oogle Scholar

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