Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo - Paperbackby Klaus K. Y. Hammering (Author) The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns to metropolitan Tokyo. Although San'ya has nearly vanished during the past twenty years, its import persists as a black market where its small population of