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First published 2024 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hammering, Klaus K. Y., 1980– author.

Title: Perilous wagers : gambling, dignity, and day laborers in twenty-first- century Tokyo / Klaus K. Y. Hammering.

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024. | Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023046111 (print) | LCCN 2023046112 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501776410 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501776427 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501776434 (epub) | ISBN 9781501776441 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Masculinity—Social aspects—Japan. | Unskilled labor—Social aspects—Japan. | Gangsters in popular culture—Japan. | San’ya (Tokyo, Japan)—Social conditions—21st century. | San’ya (Tokyo, Japan)—Economic conditions—21st century.

Classification: LCC HN723.5 .H2664 2024 (print) | LCC HN723.5 (ebook) | DDC 306.0952—dc23/eng/20240129

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023046111

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023046112

Cover image: Design of Okinawan shisa superimposed on satellite image of Tokyo by Anson Wigner, ansonwigner.com, 2023.