My weird working days and social/cultural class 'distinction' in Japan

   I was born in Kagoshima, that is located in southern west area of Japan, and have grown up in Yokohama the bed town of Tokyo, thus technically I've never lived in Tokyo. However, the differences between lower and higher class appears everywhere. When I was high school student, I had been worked in subcontract company of huge general construction enterprise(Zenekon) in Yokohama. Yokohama have complex history just like Tokyo, so there are so many social and cultural differences between each area of Yokohama. That company I had worked was located in the area that there was so much prostitute inn until just after WW2, so still that area was a sort of Shitamachi in Yokohama. The workers did not graduate university, or even not high school. Most of them were part-time worker just like me, and so much were under age (less than 18), but work was seriously hard and various, like distribution of construction materials to the right spot, helping construction artisans without knowledge (because of lack of knowledge of course we got yelled repeatedly). For working in certain kind of construction work, worker's age should be more than 20, but company forced us to work in there. Some full-time employee used to spend all of their salary to pachinko (gambling machine) or keiba (horse race gambling), alchohol or something and to smoke numerous pack of tobacco in a day. Their sons were also construction worker just like fathers and fighting to father on the mobile all the time. (Bourdieu is right in this point, of his theory of cultural reproduction!)

　 If you ride train only 15 min from that area, you can arrive at Yamate, that is high-classed area. Yamate was the living area for foreigners in late 19th century. There are so many big houses, and some christianity church, and well-dressed people who works in Kannai or Tokyo's Yamanote area. Like this, Japanese metropolitan space is well explained in this sort of 'class' view.