Tokyo Ueno Station

This haunting novel tells the story of Kazu, a man whose life is intertwined with Japan's Imperial family and a park near Tokyo's Ueno Station, where his spirit now haunts after his death. From his days as a laborer during the 1964 Olympics to his final years living in the park's homeless "villages" traumatized by the 2011 tsunami, Yū Miri, an Akutagawa-award-winning author, gives readers a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a moving portrayal of Japan's most vulnerable people that is both sensitive and deeply felt.