Japans obdachlose Bevölkerung ist seit 2003 dank Regierungsinitiativen seit der großen Finanzkrise um 90 % zurückgegangen. Dennoch gibt es immer noch viele „unsichtbare Obdachlose“, die von staatlicher Unterstützung leben, etwa 5 % der Bevölkerung
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260428/p2a/00m/0na/002000c
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The homeless population was definitely a culture shock when I first came here in 2003. The stations, especially in the winter, were full of them. The elaborate cardboard shelters they built were genuinely impressive. Ueno park was also full of them. Though unlike the homeless in a lot of other places there wasn’t any panhandling, just awkward stares.
> In a 2021 survey by the nonprofit National Homeless Support Network, 5.2% of the roughly 40,000 people sampled — or 2,061 individuals — said that for economic reasons they had „experience living in facilities other than their own home, acquaintances‘ homes or elsewhere.“
Hard to really know what that means, but it seems like 5% of people lived… somewhere for economic reasons. Somewhere that is not included in the term “elsewhere.”
I sense that it means that 5% of the people surveyed had at some point had a bout if homelessness – including net cafe living?
Not like “ooh got ‘em” just frustrating seeing major publications present this sort of garbled information.
Many Internet cafe nanmin and people still living in their cars however.
They are living in netcafes…
I did not see a homeless person during my first few days in Nagoya.
On a visit to Inuyama, I noticed an old lady waiting by the station with a suitcase, listening to an headset. After several hours of sightseeing, I went back to the station and I saw the old lady in the same position, still listening to the recorder.
Broke my heart to realize she most likely was homeless. I thought she was just waiting for someone.
The title, read literally, entails that 50% of the population was homeless. I think I can stop reading there.
There is a homeless guy who uses my gym as his overnight home.