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Pages in category "Slums in Japan" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kamagasaki; Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Kamagasaki (釜ヶ崎) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (あいりん地区) became the area's official name in May 1966.. It has the largest day laborer concentration in the country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius in this area, part of which has been in slum-like conditions until as recently as 2012, containing run ...
Unlike so-called slums, a prominent feature of doya-gai is that it is not entirely occupied by cheap lodging for day laborers—there are also middle-class residences. The population is predominantly single male manual laborers, which is another difference between the slums of pre-war Japan and those of other developing countries.
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. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
To this day, there are many of these simple lodging establishments in areas where day laborers assemble. Throughout Japan, these lodging establishments are called “doya"(ja:ドヤ街). Prior to 1966, the address of this area was Taito-Ward, Asakusa, Sanya 1~4 Chome, but due to a government program enforcing the renaming of displayed address ...
A comprehensive English-language site in Japan with exact opening/closure resp. renaming/reclassification dates of the various camps based on Japanese official sources which should be imported into the current listing: Camps in Japan proper; Camps outside Japan; japanseburgerkampen.nl (in Dutch)
Slums in Japan (2 P) Pages in category "Poverty in Japan" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Housing in Japan includes modern and traditional styles. Two patterns of residences are predominant in contemporary Japan : the single-family detached house and the multiple-unit building , either owned by an individual or corporation and rented as apartments to tenants, or owned by occupants.