标题: Downtrodden Japanese Live in Internet Cafes [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 7-15-2013 15:32 标题: Downtrodden Japanese Live in Internet Cafes Shiho Fukada, A Room With No View. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 15, 2013. http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... r-the-underemployed
My comment:
(a) summary in Table of Contents: Internet cafes in Japan have become hotels for the underemployed.
(b) Shiho FUKADA 深田 志穂 (a female photojournalist)
(c) "Cyber@cafe in Tokyo * * * Akihiro SATŌ, the owner" 佐藤 明広
http://www.cyber-a-cafe.com/company.html
(d) My only surprise is that unlike China (where internet cafes arrange computer terminals cheek by jowl, some internet cafes in Japan are furnished with booths. Otherwise, nothing to be alarmed about: when down on their luck, Americans live in their cars, which are less prevalent in Japan, so it is conceivable that Japanese live in booths.
Kerri MacDonald, Japan’s Rootless and Restless Workers. New York Times, Apr 15, 2013 (in the Lens blog) http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/20 ... d-restless-workers/
("'This image of my country, I was really proud of how it was before,' she [Fukada] said. 'And it is not the same anymore'”)
kama 釜 【かま】 (n): "iron pot; kettle"
(b) In the text, "Tdayuki SAKAI" is a typo. The caption of the last photo in the blog spells it correctly: "Tadayuki SAKAI."