15,759 homeless people in Japan
That’s what the official government numbers say:
Of the 15,759, 14,554 were males and 495 were females, while the gender of the remaining 710 was unknown.
While homeless people were found in every prefecture, Osaka was ranked top with 4,302, followed by Tokyo with 3,428, Kanagawa with 1,804, Fukuoka with 1,237 and Aichi with 929, according to the survey.
The homeless in Tokyo’s 23 wards and government-designated major cities accounted for about 70 percent of the overall figure at 11,245.
Despite earlier press reports of increases in the number of homeless, the homeless population remains at about the same level reported last year.
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lol in Berlin Germany we have almost 10000 homeless people(nothing to be proud of, but for the care given to homeless poeple)! and japan only 15000 wow!
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So does the blue tarp and pimped out cardboard shacks count as a home?
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It seems not.
ホームレス
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ホームレス
Anyway the figure will go higher, I am afraid.
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That’s it?
We have, on any given day, anywhere from 750,000 to a million on the streets here in the US.
It’s also estimated that anywhere up to 3.5 Million are homeless throughout the year these days, in the United States.
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PRETTY SAD
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Well considering the overall size of Japan (smaller than California) there’s a visible increase of the homeless in the streets. I hope that it will eventually turn around; however, given the ever publicize state of the economy and massive layoffs the figures will likely hit an all time high very soon.
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At least this problem is now acknowledged in Japan. Years ago, I had a Japanese colleague who staunchly denied that there were any homeless people in Japan. Those unfortunate souls I passed every day in Shibuya Station, according to him, were just there because they didn’t feel like going home.
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It has been acknowledged in various forms such as news report and documentary etc.
I am afraid your colleague does not represent Japan.
In a postwar mess, homeless was a fact of life. They were called furousya, homeless children were called furouji. Tomorrow’s Joe(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow’s_Joe) was one of them. You used to see homeless lying under a railroad overpass. At the time cities developed, they were evicted. There were battles between homeless people and administrators who tried to evict them. There were a lot of news reports on that. After the bubble economy, journalists started paying attention to new type of homeless;people with bachelor’s degree and presidents of the company became homeless. Years ago, “ホームレス中学生” a homeless junior high-school student” became a best seller.
News reports on homeless are aired regularly especially when society is hit hard by recession;lives of homeless, how they became homeless etc.
And homeless is a popular topic for documentary
路上に賭けた人生 ～ビッグイシューという挑戦～
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/fnsaward/14th/05-246.html
THE ホームレス ～野宿労働者1万8千人の実態～
movie.goo.ne.jp/dvd/detail/D112307857.html
俺達だって何かを創造できるはず
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6uROZT8dI
歌舞伎町のこころちゃん 4才のホームレス少女2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O__Jaqu-IIM
NNNドキュメント「派遣切り ネットカフェ難民5」
veohdownload.blog37.fc2.com/blog-entry-1673.html
You can find a lot more.
(I was looking for a masterpiece documentary which depicted the love between old homeless man and woman at Asakusabashi, but I couldn’t find it.)
By and large, many people see homeless people as just people to be avoided while some people try hard to tackle the problem.
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help them if you can
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