By Ron P. Dore
Incorporating a brand new accelerated creation. the ongoing relevance of Ron Dore's vintage examine of eastern city lifestyles and social buildings is greatly approved by means of city sociologists and different social scientists concerned about the research of contemporary Japan.
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Such a room would be used as a ‘front parlour’, for entertaining visitors, or the family might have its meals here on special occasions. It might also be used regularly for sleeping and in the summer as a general sitting-room for the family. Urban middle-class families often have as an alternative to such a ‘front parlour’, or in addition to it, a ‘Western room’ (Yooma) for receiving visitors. Such rooms, with their grey and brown wallpapers, plush, horsehair, tiger-skin rugs, marble mantelpieces, gilt baroque clocks and antimacassars, generally manage to combine all the ugliness of Victorian domestic furnishing with none of its comforts.
10d. a day. Earlier on he would vary this with an odd day at the docks where one could earn twice that amount. But poverty has its own vicious spiral. The work at the docks is too hard for him unless he is well fed, and he cannot begin to be well fed until he has worked a month at the rates they pay at the docks. In any case, some of his income has to go on drink, a taste which he acquired when it was, with an occasional visit to the cheaper brothels, the only relief from the rigours of a strict apprenticeship.
It is possible that the difference in the size of the selfemployed managerial group, as between Shitayama-cho and all Japanese urban Areas (5·0% as opposed to 1·0%) in part depends on difference in the criteria used. Section II LEVELS AND STANDARDS OF LIVING 3 Some Sketches BEFORE coming to averages and percentages, it may be useful to give first a number of individual portraits of the material lives of some Shitayamacho families. O is a policeman, 39 years old, the son of a carpenter. He went to a secondary technical school, but for reasons of family poverty had to leave before completing the course.