Back in January I posted about a homeless Brazilian who had been featured on Japanese TV. The economic depression has continued and apparently the number of homeless foreigners is increasing. Most of them are South Americans of Japanese ancestry (nikkei-jin) who had been in the country performing manual labor while on special Nikkei visas. Few of them speak Japanese, so it is very difficult for them to find new jobs.

Here’s a partially translated news report from several weeks ago about how some homeless foreigners are managing to survive during these tough times:

Part 1

Part 2

The report features penniless foreigners who choose to accept the Japanese government’s offer of paying them to leave the country, as well as a foreigner who is determined to stay in Japan and find work (with the help of government-sponsored Japanese lessons).

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