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San'ya (山谷, San'ya) is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori.A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.
Toyoko kids are not only natives of Tokyo, but come from as far as Osaka and Nagoya. [3] Similar disadvantaged youth communities exist in other Japanese cities, such as the "Bibu-yoko Neighborhood" around Yokohama Station, "Gurishita Kids" under the Glico sign in Dōtonbori, Osaka, Kego Park in Tenjin, Fukuoka and Susukino in Sapporo. [4]
It was estimated in 2006, using the Employment Status Survey, that 8.2% of regular employees made little enough to be considered working poor. In October 2009, Japan's Labor Ministry released a report which stated that almost one in six Japanese, which would be 22 million people, lived in poverty.
A Villa Miseria in Argentina A favela in Brazil. This is a list of slums.A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security.
A homeless man sleeping in Tokyo A homeless tent in Shinjuku. Homelessness in Japan (ホームレス, 浮浪者) is a social issue overwhelmingly affecting middle-aged and elderly males. Homelessness is thought to have peaked in the 1990s as a consequence of the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble and has largely fallen since then.
Pages in category "Neighborhoods of Tokyo" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Agariyashiki;
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Osaka, Tokyo, and Aichi were the prefectures with the highest homeless populations, while the city of Osaka, the 23 special wards of Tokyo, and the city of Nagoya had 1750 or more (no other city had 850). The ministry found that about 41% lived in urban parks and 23% along river banks; streets and railway stations also had significant numbers.