{"product":{"product_id":"080144375X","title":"A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer","price":"25.95","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41o2utnVfnL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/080144375X"},"comments":[{"body":"[A Man With No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer](http://www.amazon.com/Man-No-Talents-Memoirs-Laborer/dp/080144375X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1280203452\u0026amp;sr=8-1) by Oyama Shiro. This book provides a different perspective on Japanese society. It's written by a man who got a degree, became a salary man and realized that he hated everything about it. He quits and becomes a day laborer. By the time he has written this book he is in his fifties I believe. Anyway, give it a try. It's a short book and easy to read.","subreddit_name":"japan","author":"Tends"},{"body":"A while back, I spent a week in what's widely considered the 'bad part of town' in Tokyo -- up around Minami-senju, Kita-senju, the area once known as Sanya, the subject of the famous book \"a man with no talents\" ([https://www.amazon.com/Man-No-Talents-Memoirs-Laborer/dp/080144375X](https://www.amazon.com/Man-No-Talents-Memoirs-Laborer/dp/080144375X)).\r\n\r\n\u0026amp;#x200B;\r\n\r\nShit was charming as hell. As low-income areas in the world go, it was nicer than most of San Francisco's yuppie areas. I saw maybe one daytime alcoholic. That's about it.  \r\n\r\n\r\nI'm not sure why you picked Tokyo, but you're making an easy project very hard for yourself.","subreddit_name":"Tokyo","author":"Televangelis"},{"body":"https://www.amazon.com/Man-No-Talents-Memoirs-Laborer/dp/080144375X","subreddit_name":"ireland","author":"iceymoo"}]}