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Roppongi Crossing
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Author : Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Roppongi Crossing written by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Political Science categories.
For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international entertainment and people. It was where Japanese and foreigners went to meet and play. With the crash of Japan’s bubble economy in the 1990s, however, the neighborhood declined, and it now has a reputation as perhaps Tokyo’s most dangerous district—a hotbed of illegal narcotics, prostitution, and other crimes. Its concentration of “bad foreigners,” many from China, Russia and Eastern Europe, West Africa, and Southeast Asia is thought to be the source of the trouble. Roman Adrian Cybriwsky examines how Roppongi’s nighttime economy is now under siege by both heavy-handed police action and the conservative Japanese “construction state,” an alliance of large private builders and political interests with broad discretion to redevelop Tokyo. The construction state sees an opportunity to turn prime real estate into high-end residential and retail projects that will “clean up” the area and make Tokyo more competitive with Shanghai and other rising business centers in Asia. Roppongi Crossing is a revealing ethnography of what is arguably the most dynamic district in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. Based on extensive fieldwork, it looks at the interplay between the neighborhood’s nighttime rhythms; its emerging daytime economy of office towers and shopping malls; Japan’s ongoing internationalization and changing ethnic mix; and Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown, the massive new construction projects now looming over the old playground.
Roppongi Crossing
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language : ja
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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Roppongi Crossing 2013 Out Of Doubt
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition held 21 September 2013 - 13 January 2014 at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo..
Roppongi Crossing
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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Roppongi Crossing 2007
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Author : Mori-Bijutsukan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Roppongi Crossing 2007
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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Tokyo
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Author : Robb Satterwhite
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2006-09
Tokyo written by Robb Satterwhite and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09 with Travel categories.
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2013
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Author : 森美術館
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10-15
2013 written by 森美術館 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Art, Japanese categories.
Held triennially since 2004, "Roppongi Crossing" is an exhibition series that offers a comprehensive survey of the Japanese art scene. The 4h in the series, "Roppongi Crossing 2013" will inquire into the "current state" of Japanese contemporary art, referencing history and global perspectives and reflecting the social awareness that has clearly been heightened since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the triple disaster. What kinds of productive discussions can arise through art from the doubt now being expressed about all manner of generally accepted ideas and existing systems? Together with the audience, we will consider through the art practice of 29 artists and groups - mainly those born in the 1970s and '80s, but also including representatives from different generations and expatriate Japanese artists - the kind of landscape that will emerge in the next, unpredictable stage in Japan's history.
Tokyo A Cultural Guide
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Author : John H. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-16
Tokyo A Cultural Guide written by John H. Martin and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-16 with Travel categories.
This useful Tokyo travel guide presents fourteen original walking tours that unlock some of Tokyo’s secrets and mysteries. Although Tokyo today is a sprawling urban patchwork of towns and wards, each of the city’s districts retains a unique charm and character. Discover, in a series of linked, engaging half-day excursions, the stories behind places like Hibiya's Hall of the Cry of the Stag and "Flying Head" of Marunouchi. Visit the sites where the Forty-Seven Ronin, the "last Samurai" General Nogi, and Yukio Mishima committed ritual Seppuku. In the sumo district see where the wrestlers fight, train and live, and just a bit farther on, the massive Thunder Gate of Senso-ji Temple. John and Phyllis Martin have visited Tokyo numerous times and know the city intimately. With detailed directions and maps, they introduce the background, the legends, and the sights that bring old Edo alive.
Tokyo Underworld
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Author : Robert Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-06-21
Tokyo Underworld written by Robert Whiting and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with True Crime categories.
In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever know, In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. He had a failed stint as a professional wrestler, and participated in a fumbled (but famous) diamond heist. He was deported but managed to return with the assistance of the Mafia. Then Nick opened a pizza joint in what would be the centre of Tokyo's nightlife and became "the king of Roppongi and Mafia boss of Tokyo," and the intimate of some of Japan's most notorious underworld figures as well as many of its political and business leaders. Following Zappetti's rising and falling fortunes, and his love-hate relationship with his adopted country, Robert Whiting show us the sinister (and sometimes ridiculous) goings-on among Tokyo's traditional criminal gangs as they developed from local racketeers and gamblers into lynchpins of international finance, politics and corruption. Here is a fresh perspective on postwar Japan and how it went from being a defeated nation to an economic player, with a little help from some less than diplomatic friends.