Nippon: “Tokyo Ueno Station”: A Tale From the Soul for Those Who Do Not Belong
After Tokyo Ueno Station won the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2020, the original novel became a bestseller in Japan. Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yu Miri’s novel JR Ueno-eki kōen ...
“Tokyo Ueno Station”: A Tale From the Soul for Those Who Do Not Belong
“To be homeless is to be ignored when people walk past, while still being in full view of everyone,” says Kazu, the elderly protagonist of Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station, translated to English by Morgan ...
Yu Miri won a National Book Award for “Tokyo Ueno Station,” a novel whose main character is the ghost of a homeless construction worker. By Motoko Rich TOKYO — Walking on an autumn Saturday through ...
NPR: A Painful Past And Ghostly Present Converge In 'Tokyo Ueno Station'
Kazu, the narrator of Tokyo Ueno Station, had hoped that his death would bring him some rest, some sense of closure. The man led a life marked with hard work and intense pain; he spent his final years ...
The Harvard Crimson: ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’ is a Luminous Meditation on Loss and Time
Only halfway through the text is it confirmed that Kazu, the protagonist of Yu Miri’s novel “Tokyo Ueno Station,” is, indeed, dead. In most books, the delay of such a major plot point would be a ...
ジャパンタイムズ: 'Tokyo Ueno Station' shows the dark side of the postwar boom
An experiment is under way at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo to create a safer environment for the hearing impaired by converting announcements and even the sound of an approaching train into printed matter ...