Documentary: Homeless in Japan (Video)
A man from Hong Kong travels to Japan to make a documentary about Tokyo’s homeless population. In Ueno Park he meets Mr. Kawaguchi, a homeless man who speaks English and claims to have worked for the Japan Foundation. The filmmaker follows around Mr. Kawaguchi, interviewing him and observing his daily life (As well as sleeping in the park near him!). Here’s all 5 parts of director K. M. Lo‘s “Homeless in Japan.”
It’s pretty sad to see an apparently well-educated man like Mr. Kawaguchi reduced to eating out of trash cans in Ueno Park. I wonder if his claims about having a large amount of money in the stock market or being a direct descendant of the Tokugawa shoguns have any truth to them…

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