Tokyo Ueno Station Martha C. Nussbaum their lives appear vastly different—but

their lives appear vastly different—but beneath the surface

At an isolated mountain hot spring

he’s teaching ESL with zero passion

But when her relatives insist upon a new wife

Tokyo Ueno Station Martha C. Nussbaum their lives appear vastly different—butA surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.