Name: How Japan Hides its Homeless Problem from the World
Uploaded: 2025-01-20T02:30:40.000Z
Duration: 16 min 31 s
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Homelessness in Japan is nothing like what we've seen in the West.

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Welcome to a homeless world without rampant violence and substance abuse where the biggest thing you have to worry about as a homeless person is bad weather.

In 2019 the super typhoon that came through just washed all this away.

Scattered along the Tama River west of Tokyo there are thousands of Japanese people living like this and we've been offered an opportunity to go into their homes and see how they live without money but with plenty of dignity and respect.

In a country where the difference between rich and poor is stark Japanese people find creative ways to live with decency.

As a country on the verge of population collapse where there are more people over the age of 65 than ever before we may be peering into the future of many people's lives here in Japan.

Follow me deep into the forest of the Tama River to see the secret lives of these invisible people.

Welcome to the side of Japan you were not supposed to see.

We didn't have any oil, so it was just right.

I bought it at the department store on the way here.

Since I was a kid, my parents told me that my ears were sour enough to make octopus.

It's a sandy land, so I don't know I think it's normal.

Cows and Japanese cows The head of the cow has calmed down.

I saw another area many kilometers away from here in Kawasaki.

These are just dotted all around the river.

People are living like this in one of the most dangerous places in Japan.

Just last week, there was a typhoon that ripped through this area.

In 2019, the super typhoon that came through just washed all this away and put people in this flash flood area, which is very dangerous.

Does it have a gate or anything like that?

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How Japan Hides its Homeless Problem from the World

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