Miyamoto-cho is a pseudonymous neighborhood in
Tokyo
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, the subject of an ethnographic study of urban life in the late 1970s and early 1980s undertaken by the
anthropologist
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Theodore C. Bestor
Theodore C. Bestor (August 7, 1951 – July 1, 2021) was a professor of anthropology and Japanese studies at Harvard University. He was the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2012. In 2018, he resigned as director from the Reisch ...
in his book and film, both titled ''
Neighborhood Tokyo''. It is most likely the area of
Shimo-shimmei and Futaba in
Shinagawa
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies.
, the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total are ...
Ward
Ward may refer to:
Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...
. Both names can be seen in the opening of the film.
See also
*
Shitayama-cho, Tokyo
Shitayama-cho is a pseudonymous Tokyo neighborhood, the subject of a major study of immediate postwar Japanese urban life, undertaken by the British
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of ...
Neighborhoods of Tokyo
References
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