Convenience stores increase security while more robbers taking only food.
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Recession Robbers Steal Food Not Cash
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Jobless Japanese woman sets fire to work counsellor
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An unemployed Japanese woman was arrested on Wednesday for setting a job agency worker on fire for failing to find her work, causing serious injuries.
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Japanese attitude on Homeless and Poverty Changing
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I have posted about Makoto Yuasa, 40, in a previous post, "Japan's Working Poor." Yuasa is an activist working to eliminate poverty.
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Japan falls into spiral of despair
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This article in the Times online, London is a lengthy but just about spot on accurate picture of the financial crisis in Japan.
NIGHT after night, the casualties of the new recession shuffle to their beds in makeshift shelters of cardboard boxes lining the steps of Tokyo station and the capital’s parks.
Downtown Tokyo tent city population goes over 300
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A temporary tent village set up at a central Tokyo park has drawn more than 300 people without jobs or homes since it was set up on New Year’s.
Homeless rate in big cities up 15% on year
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And that's in November. How many of the 85,000 temporary and day workers who have lost or are expected to lose their jobs (and their places to live) by March will join them? It seems to be that Japan, Inc. has gone awry.
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