A Walk on the Wild Side: Japan’s Hidden Lives with Tom Gill

In this episode, we walk the streets of Japan with Tom Gill —anthropologist, longtime Japan resident, and one of the most clear-eyed observers of the country’s marginalized communities. Gill is best known for his decades of fieldwork among day laborers, the homeless, and the urban poor , particularly in places like Tokyo’s San’ya district. Rather than studying Japan from a distance or through…