Homelessness is a major social issue that probably exists in every major city around the world. But in Japan, this issue is something that rarely gets talked about, to the point we were almost convinced that there were no homeless people in Japan until we saw them with our own eyes. It is estimated that there are over 1,500 homeless people in Tokyo but the truth is, no one knows for sure how many there are or how they became homeless. We hit the streets of Tokyo to see if we could interview some

Why don’t you see homeless people in Japan? Today I went deep into the forests on the outskirts of Tokyo to visit homeless people evicted from the city. Most of Japan’s homeless are elderly people who are no longer able to work. They might be out of sight, but they exist out here. #japan #japanese #tokyo #japanlife #lovejapan #japan_of_insta #portraitofjapan #lostinjapan | Oriental Pearl

"They want us invisible. Gone." The Olympics are under way, but this is what you don't see – hundreds of homeless people in central Tokyo being forced from sight. https://bbc.in/3ykF100 | BBC News