Efforts to tackle homelessness in the Japanese city of Osaka are having knock-on effects that are resolving a series of other issues facing the metropolis – from illegally parked bicycles to ...

Tokyo, March 12 : The first wave of military rescuers began arriving by boats and helicopters.

OSAKA—An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting angry cries of protests and desperate expressions of helplessness.

More than two weeks have passed since Typhoon Hagibis tore through eastern Japan and things are finally returning to normal. But fallout continues in some areas. A municipal office in Tokyo is ...

A homeless man in his 60s sat on a flattened cardboard box in a park near the Sumidagawa river in Tokyo and covered his mouth with a dirty face mask. “I use it very carefully because I have no ...

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