Most people associate Ueno Park, the most-visited park in Tokyo, with a springtime canopy of cherry blossoms, or the zoo and its fabled pandas. But strolling down the picturesque alleys that crisscross the park, you are also in the presence of history, perhaps walking on human remains buried during World War II, and never too far from the sobering camps of the homeless that live within its gates.
Tokyo Ueno Station, by Yu Miri, Translated by Morgan Giles.
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