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Scenes From Tokyo’s Skid Row
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food.
zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 04/03/2013 20:49
As we wait with bated breath for the BoJ news this evening, and while the world stares in jealous amazement at the Japanese stock market’s gains and infers that things must be economically awesome in the island nation, the sad depressing truth is -things are worse, much worse, as this series of images from Sanya (or Tokyo’s skid row) indicates. The Sanya district in the north-east of Tokyo was taken off the map 40 years ago, but if you can find it you’ll discover many of the city’s 15,000 homeless people.
Homeless In Tokyo
Via Japan Sub-culture Research blog,
Scenes From A Tokyo Skid Row Clinic
You’ve probably never heard of Sanya. The Tokyo City Government doesn’t acknowledge its existence, and you won’t find it on any official maps. Sanya is more or less Tokyo’s skid row, where people, mostly men, end up when the other parts of this immense, gleaming city have stopped offering comfort and opportunity.
Sanya is where the Japanese outcasts, food animal butchers, leather tanners, and other professions considered “unclean” by Japan’s traditionally Buddhist ruling class, aka the burakumin, or dowa, plied their trades for centuries. These tradesmen may mostly be gone, and the smell of the blood they spilled long-since drifted away, but the stigma of what Sanya once was remains, and it clings to the many of the people who live and work here.
Thanks to BrotherJohnF
2013-04-03 22:47:12
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2013/04/03/scenes-from-tokyos-skid-row-2/
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