Miyamoto-cho is a pseudonymous neighborhood in

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, the subject of an ethnographic study of urban life in the late 1970s and early 1980s undertaken by the

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Theodore C. Bestor 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 the Tokyo Metropolis in 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 ...

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. Both names can be seen in the opening of the film.

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