LWIF EP90: Housing Japan’s Homeless

This is part 3 of a series of videos on homelessness in Japan. In this episode we talk once again with Professor Tom Gill from Meiji Gakuin University as well as take a tour of a doya (flophouse) and doya-gai’s (skid rows) in Tokyo (San’ya) and Yokohama (Kotobukicho). In parts 4 and 5, we’ll talk with some formerly homeless individuals, follow along with an NPO (Non-profit organization), and get a grasp on the overall state of homelessness in Japan. Part 1 Part 2 Special Thanks

• Tom Gill
• Sanyukai
• ARCH

Sources

• Skid Row – By unidentified photographers, 1874 (in top image) – Seattle Public Library collection: SPL51130 & SPL7314, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23867310
• http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp.e.sj.hp.transer.com/kenko/entai/homeless/
• https://www.kyosaikai.jp/business/hamakaze.html
• http://www.jcp-yokohama.com/archives/10488
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse