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"Eight Square Meters in Tokyo" is a new collection of essays by Japanese-Chinese writer Shinobu Yoshii. It is his personal record of establishing an alternative daily life in Tokyo. Eight square meters is called "four and a half tatami" in Japan, which is a room with only four and a half tatami mats, and the rent is cheap. Because the eight-square-meter room did not have a kitchen, a refrigerator, a bathroom, or a washing machine, she enthusiastically wrote about how to eat and live, as well as the daily life of Japanese common people she had personally experienced. Living in a cramped living space, she extended her life to the streets and public spaces of the city, writing about laundries, sento, cafes, 24-hour comic shops, independent cinemas, small restaurants, etc. In Tokyo. She also wrote stories about the common people she met in Tokyo. These characters are "invisible, real Tokyoites". Their stories illustrate the world of Japan for us, and also reveal themselves.