The Biggest Problem in Japan Nobody is Talking About

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  @FNLNFNLN · 2 years ago (edited)

  We eliminated homelessness!... by redefining &quot;homelessness&quot; to mean a super specific thing that excludes what most people would consider homeless.<br><br>Bureaucratic classic.

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  @yamo_chan · 2 years ago

  The article also didn’t count the people that live in manga cafes and such, which Japan does not count as homeless.

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  @soundlesspeal · 2 years ago

  japan reporting the number of homeless people like finland reporting the number of unhappy people

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  @LionsinofStraight · 10 months ago

  I guess Chris Broad didn’t watch your video before uploading his globalism video

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• PA

  @Parcolai · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtOXBWcjHsU&amp;t=99">1:39</a> Not trying to defend the US, but I think you read that stat wrong. 11.5% is the poverty rate. You can be housed but still be poor.

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  @jlp11889 · 2 years ago (edited)

  There&apos;s a homeless Japanese man with a YouTube channel called Nomad Push, it would be great if he could get a shoutout. He travels around Japan on a skateboard and records his experiences. Much love for bringing attention to these topics!

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  @elvisvasquez · 2 years ago

  Its a shame that adults are the one that are always saying we need to make a better life for the next generation. But in the end they but up a blind eye when things need to be done.

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  @roxannireland · 2 years ago

  This reminds me a lot of how domestic violence/child abuse/mental health was dealt with in the US in the 80s. &nbsp;When I was younger, certain parts of town in my city were overrun with homeless kids who had escaped violent homes.

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  @slightlybored · 2 years ago

  Japan has a history of masking social issues, I could easily see people who live in abandoned proprieties not being counted towards the homeless populations, despite the fact that these buildings do not have either electricity or running water.

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  @OrientalPearl · 2 years ago

  I’ve covered the homeless issue. The Tokyo kids problem is especially hard to talk about and not get into trouble with YouTube though.

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  @Cyhcg5uhgb · 2 years ago

  I was a run away as well, but in Europe.<br>Unfortunately this problem is everywhere (though I admit it is worse in Japan). Society thinks that kids being abused is often their fault (unfortunately). I got told often &quot;what did you do to make them act that way to you?&quot; and &quot;Maybe you need to be the better person and just accept your parents for who they are?&quot;, basically asking me why I couldn&apos;t just allow myself to be abused like that. Even had people tell me that &quot;they do love you and they don&apos;t mean it like that. They are your parents after all&quot;. <br>It is hard to deal with these things as a child. I am an adult now and ever since becomming an adult no one has blamed me for cutting my parents out of my life. No one has told me to go back.<br>As a child, as a teen that just ran away? All the time.<br><br>I too sought help from an organization. They send me back. They believed my parents (they spoke to us both) and tought that I was just &quot;trying to get attention&quot;. I told them I will run away again when I am 18, then they legally can&apos;t send me back. And I did. Ran away, never went back. Don&apos;t regret it at all.<br><br>Stuff like this just break my hard. Kids don&apos;t deserve this, they are so vulnerable, they need support. And this is how society treats them.<br>Unfortunately parents (especially mothers) are seen as people that can&apos;t do no wrong, because they are &quot;supposed to love their children&quot;, but things like this happen a lot.<br><br>Unfortunately there are no good solutions. Not even in my country (and my country is seen as one of the countries with a decent system). I ran away to group home. Started living there. I was surrounded by pedo&apos;s, people pulled knives on each other and sometimes someone got beaten up. People abused drugs and were dealing with psychosis.<br>Still I didn&apos;t want to go home, because living with my parents was way worse.<br>I just wish people took kids seriously. I wish there were more solutions to prevent this kind of stuff from happening. How many more kids have to die from abuse before stuff like this stops?

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  @neonnwave1 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The golden rule I follow is &apos;if it looks too good to be true, chances are there&apos;s a catch and you&apos;re not seeing it&apos;. I love Japan but even I knew that it wasn&apos;t perfect. When my sister&apos;s in laws went to the country, they were astounded and wouldn&apos;t stop talking about how amazing it was. When they said they couldn&apos;t figure out why, I had to tell them the dark truth and how Japanese society is a double edge sword (then again, most societies are if you think about it). They just sat there shocked after hearing what I told them, especially about the awful bullying problem the country has - where literally anything different about you makes you a target, even if it&apos;s a positive trait.

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