The parks of urban Japan have become the home of its increasing homeless population. In this segment, Al Jazeera’s People & Power looks at the plight of the homeless in Osaka, Japan. Numbers are hard to come by and tiny by American standards. In 2003, approximately 25,200 people were believed to be homeless up from about 12,000 a decade prior. But advocates for the homeless say the government is undercounting and not addressing the problem. They argue that in 2002, Osaka alone had 20,000 homeless. Here’s a report from one of Japan’s tent cities Dignity Village.
A Homeless Structure in Fukuoka
