http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/18/on-being-homeless-in-japan/ A New England Expat in Japan. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/18/on-being-homeless-in-japan/#comment-2789 Fri, 10 May 2013 22:43:08 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=534#comment-2789 I am surprised there isn’t some kind of homeless shelter in Japanese cities – they are a community culture, always looking after each other (or maybe just looking after the foreigners).
Would Japanese people be too proud to use the shelters?

]]> http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/18/on-being-homeless-in-japan/#comment-415 Tue, 24 May 2011 14:37:30 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=534#comment-415 I think the number of homeless people in Tokyo surpassed the number in Osaka this year. But like you said, the number is growing. I remember when I worked at Lawson, there was a park near by where a couple of homeless men made tents in the corner and sometimes they would come in to buy things. Sometimes they would take things without paying. But our store manager, whenever he noticed them taking something, he would just pay out of his pocket. And the homeless men never took anything more than 200yen.

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