@AbiyBattleSpell
honestly while its shitty a cyber cafe still is better then most countries where doing similar work wouldnt even buy u half a bagel.
@rojblake-fk3cu
Western people also forget, the people they see and recognize as homeless are only a decent sized fraction of the homeless. A far larger number of homeless exist, but you never see them as homeless, because they also take care not to recognised to keep their jobs or just to avoid the stigma. There are vast numbers of fairly functional, cleanish and polite homeless people in the west. You are just very unlikely to recognise one as homeless unless you see them sleeping in their car, or find their tent.
@Cocothecat2023
The key is to help the homeless early on. I imagine that after some time on the streets, a person will lose their sanity and ability to function in general society
@abracadaverous
To be fair, the US poverty rate is as low as it is because the poverty rate hasn't changed for decades. For example, in my state, the poverty line sits below the rental cost of a studio apartment. So even though you might not have enough money to afford a single month's rent in an extremely modest unit, even if you skip buying food or paying bills, you might not qualify as "impoverished". But de facto poverty is ubiquitous in the States, and wealth inequality is extreme.
@tristan7216
Working a low paying job to pay for an indoor space to sleep is not homelessness, it's just being poor. This is much better than being poor in the West, where you actually end up sleeping on the street, even if you work, because population growth and regulation have made housing so expensive. Sleeping on the street is a downward spiral, you can't maintain hygiene so your health deteriorates and no one wants to be around you. Sleeping indoors matters a LOT. It sounds like Japan does a reasonable job on this.
@mRahman92
Housing takes up so much of today's cost of living expenses for most people in the West. It can eat up as much as half of someone's income. It's no wonder so many people end up without a permanent residence.
@johndelagarza361
TBH I think we would be better off doing it like Japan.
@Gdub33
"they move the mentally ill into a mental health facility" I wish i lived in Japan. We tried soooo hard to get my brother into a mental health facility. He was schizoaffective and became homeless and was absolutely losing it. The judge turned our request down a couple of times to get him the mental health care he desperately needed. He ended his life 11/04/2024. RIP brother!
@fcfhkmelb
Japan has the cleanest homeless people I have ever seen and they don’t bother anyone
@iExploder
Y'all know that people are pretty well hidden when they're, you know, housed, right?
@andrwwaugh
Is it just me, or did it not show the high tech looking pods from the thumbnail?
@TabPGE
Homelessness is a symptom of greater issues imo, so I hope homeless people begin to be seen as people instead of a problem.
@ichifish
There's one major point wrong in the video, but there's also few things missing (I'm a permanent resident who's been here for 20+ years). First, yes, there are thousands of homeless people in Tokyo, and 15,000 people "living" in internet cafes. But there are 30 million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area. For reference, California has about 40 million and almost 200,000 official homeless (and the state GDP is almost as much as all of Japan). Second, one reason homelessness is not as prevalent is that housing in Japan is dirt cheap (because unlike in the west, buildings depreciate). I live in Kobe, an hour from Osaka and Kyoto, and in my neighborhood there's everything from million-dollar properties to tiny places you can rent for $300 a month, probably less if you know someone. Public housing is plentiful and while most don't choose to live there, it's not dangerous, like the US, and there's affordable public transportation. Third, until very recently culture and employment law has made it difficult to fire people. It's not uncommon to see a 3-4 old people guiding people around construction sites when one would do. That's because companies keep people employed as long as possible (and pass on the costs, of course). This means fewer people are fired just because the investors aren't making profits fast enough. It's not great for creating a dynamic economy, but it's compassionate. These days there are far more "temporary" workers, however. Finally, the video says that there is "absolutely no culture of compassion towards homeless people in Japan." This is flat-out untrue, and leads me to believe this person has never been to Japan. Yes, homeless people are moved out of parks and off of streets. But if you've ever been to Japan you'd know that there is no, as in zero, space in the metropolitan areas. There is no room for homeless encampments on streets, and the few parks there are busy (note that many of the stock videos of homeless are from the west -they don't show 3-meter wide streets with dozens of people, cars, etc. on them). Japanese are non-confrontational and extremely cautious. One homeless tent in a park can prevent hundreds of families from sending their children there. This isn't just because homeless people are unsightly, it's because many if not most of the homeless are suffering from mental illness. Everyone's favorite word here is "unsafe," and while I think it's excessive, in a country where everything revolves around surviving the next natural disaster, there's a very good reason why you can't have homeless encampments on streets or in parks (where everyone needs to go through or to in the event of an earthquake). Where is the compassion? Along with ngos and government services it's in the cheap housing, ubiquitous transportation options, and insanely cheap healthcare that allows the nearly-homeless to live independently and with dignity.
@FriarTuck81
You missed the big picture. The reason why they’re homeless rate is low is because they offer low cost alternatives. If you look here in the United States you can’t find low cost alternatives. I remember being able to find a place for 100 bucks a week now I can’t find a place for less than $1500 a month.
@samholland209
15:19 Japan has a higher poverty rate than the US, but America's impoverished are much worse off because of the country's insanely expensive healthcare system, compared to Japan's cheap healthcare system, along with much worse public transit, and less government support than in Japan.
@alexcarter8807
You can rent a tiny place to live even in Tokyo for as little as $200 a month. You might have to bring in your own little butane stove (I love mine!) and bathe at the local bath house but these places exist and there are YouTubers with many videos of them. Essentially, Japan still has "flophouses" which the US has largely done away with.
@UnicornMeat512
Sounds like they're doing it better than us
@namename2040
The fact that their homeless actively tries not to be an inconvenience is such wild concept. We got people peeing in front of stores in the us
@adamhill4141
Japan doesn’t have the drug addiction issues that they have in the US which is one of the main reasons for homelessness
@liamcollinson5695