Thousands of homeless 'net cafe refugees' in Japan risk being turfed out onto the streets as the coronavirus pandemic forces the sudden closure of ...
YOKOHAMA: Thousands of homeless"net cafe refugees" in Japan risk being turfed out onto the streets as the coronavirus pandemic forces the sudden closure of their uniquely Japanese 24/7 comic book havens.
"I thought of sleeping on a bench at a train station ... or subway stairs going underground," said the grey-haired man, who declined to give his name.His Internet cafe informed him at the weekend it would be closing due to state of emergency measures in Japan to stem the spread of the coronavirus."I used to go to work from net cafes ...
The aim is to provide a safe place to those driven out by the coronavirus crisis, said Yuji Miyakoshi, an official at the municipal government. Miyakoshi said the people in the shelter were"quite discreet and quiet... My feeling is that many of them are obviously not good at asserting themselves."On the surface, Japan appears a wealthy and prosperous society and visitors to Tokyo and other major cities are often struck by the relative lack of homeless people seen in other world capitals.
Coronavirus has driven these people into a corner, said Tsuyoshi Inaba, who has long been involved in helping homeless people.
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