Heisei Tokyo Twelve Faces
by (japan) Editorial Department Of "literary Spring And Autumn"
About This Novel
Twelve non-fiction writers and twelve social jigsaw puzzles of intertwined light and shadow reveal the undercurrents of life under the mask of Tokyo's prosperity and interpret the diverse and complex true face of an international metropolis. In May 2019, Japan ended the Heisei era and entered the first year of Reiwa. Since then, the Tokyo Olympics, originally held in 2020, was postponed to 2021 due to the new crown epidemic. Looking back at history, the first Tokyo Olympics was held in 1964. At that time, Japan was riding on the east wind of rapid economic development and was making rapid progress towards the goal of becoming a world power. However, after entering the Heisei era, the prosperity of Showa became a thing of the past, and various social problems began to appear as the economic bubble burst. But at the same time, as the pace of the city gradually slows down, various aspects of life that have been embedded in the background of the times have surfaced in unexpected places, allowing people to re-understand the warm side of this big city. This book is a selection of twelve articles that reflect the changes in "people" in Tokyo - residents' living conditions and changes in personal consciousness - from the "Tokyo Directly in Fifty Years" column that was serialized in the monthly magazine Bungeishunqiu from 2016 to 2019. It was interviewed and written by 12 non-fiction writers (many of whom have won the Otaku Soichi Non-fiction Award) on different topics.
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