An antipoverty citizens group asked the Tokyo metropolitan government Tuesday to continue providing shelter and life-counseling service to hundreds of jobless and homeless people staying at a temporary shelter beyond the deadline of next Monday.
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Tokyo gov't asked to continue providing shelter, service to homeless
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Japan feeling the effects of poverty
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Japan may be one the world's biggest economies, but it is not immune to poverty. According to Masanori Matsumura, a primary school teacher for 30 years, a growing number of children in Japan today cannot even afford classroom supplies "such as paints or craft materials." He adds, "The expanding poverty is hitting the most vulnerable victims - children." Such a situation has its social costs.
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Michael Moore’s documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story“, has spurred some talks on the class divide (not yet a war) in the United States. The documentary itself was vintage Michael Moore — simplistic, sometimes polarizing storytelling with a touch of humor.
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Antipoverty campaigner, economist appointed as Cabinet Office advisers
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I think this is a positive move, Makoto Yuasa has been campaigning for the homeless for many years,
15.7% of Japanese Living in Poverty? What does it mean?
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A Kyodo news report yesterday proclaimed that 1 in 7 Japanese people were living in poverty, according to a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare release. The figure of 15.7% (or 1 in 7) has been all over the media over the last day or so, but what does it really mean?
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Caption under the photo says, "Many of Japan's newly destitute are reliant on soup kitchens". I saw a long, long queue at one such "soup kitchen" in a park in Tokyo last year (before the so-called global "simultaneous" recession hit). Perhaps, you'd better not win an election unless you know where to get money, anyone's money, to pay for your promises.
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Good walls make good neighbors?
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Japanese Student: Don’t you know? The Chinese want to hide their poor from all the visitors during the Olympics so they built walls…but if you look behind the walls you will see the real China.
Me: Really? Ok. thanks for the tip. I will do just that.
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