"Tokyo Poor Girl" Author: [Japan] Nakamura Junyan Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

Introduction
■ Shortlisted for the 2019 Japan Bookstore Awards.
■ Recommended by famous Japanese musician and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto.
■Content Introduction
◇ Originally published in Japan's Toyo Keizai Shimbun, it was a column titled "Women Groaning in Poverty". It took about three years to collect stories told by dozens of women, and finally compiled them into a book. As of the publication of the Japanese version of the book in 2019, the column has received 120 million visits.
◇ The author Atsushi Nakamura is a journalist who has been dedicated to interviewing women's poverty issues for more than 20 years. He uses the perspective of a recorder to truthfully present the stories of these women.

◇ She is a young girl who was forced to become a "custom lady" before the entrance ceremony.
◇ She is a master's student at the University of Tokyo who cannot afford medical expenses.
◇ She is a student who is looking for a "godfather" on the Internet.
◇ She is the wife of a former diplomat who lives in an attic and cannot afford the water and electricity bills
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They are not seen, or when they are seen they are reduced to a statistic.
They are accused of being solely responsible for their poverty or are pitied because of their poverty.
They are a group and also individual beings.
They are them, and maybe they are also us.