In Japan – or at least in Tokyo – however, most homeless people are middle-aged or older men. One article even suggests that many of these men were once white-collar workers or had been company owners ...

Last Friday, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released the results of an annual study of the number of homeless people in the country’s parks and riverside areas. Conducted in January of ...

Official statistics on Japan’s homeless population indicate a drop since 2016, but critics contend that they are not comprehensive. The National Survey on Homelessness in Japan conducted in January ...

The number of homeless people in Japan has dropped to its lowest level yet of 3,992, according to a Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare survey, although this does not take into account some ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Kyoko Machiya should be enjoying life with grandchildren. Instead, the 64-year-old's home is a makeshift structure of boxes covered with blue plastic in a Tokyo park. Homelessness in ...

Like most people in Japan, Megumi Shibuya throws out her old paperback books in the garbage collection area where they will be picked up for recycling. But one book the 47-year-old woman disposed of ...

Gifu Prefectural Police investigators examine an area around an embankment of the Ijira River in Gifu where Tetsuya Watanabe was found collapsed, on March 25, 2020. (Mainichi/Shinji Yokota) GIFU -- ...

A 46-year-old homeless man wipes sweat from his face at a park in the city of Osaka on the night of Aug. 13, 2024. He said that he was thinking of trying to find a space at a shelter because of the ...

The homeless in Japan are mostly older men down on their luck, sleeping on cardboard in train stations or under blue tarps in public parks. Some are mentally disturbed or chronically ill, but their ...