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Local gov't treatment of homeless during typhoon raises concerns

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I hope such situation won’t happen again.

Homeless people are human beings like all of us.

We don’t know the reason why they lost everything,and rather than ignore the government should give them a concrete hand to raise again and have a dignified life.

Never close heart to people.

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Not even the homeless issue, but the fact that they deny access if you don't happen to live in the ward/city where the evacuation is issued. What if you're stuck in the city on business, or visiting friends, or at work when the evacuation order comes? I can understand the logic of the money coming from residence taxes and not wanting to overload with "non-residents", but in any kind of real disaster situation it just seems cruel and bureaucratic and will likely lead to fistfights and violence if a super serious disaster was to happen. Hopefully this change for allowing the homeless into shelters will also allow any non-resident to take refuge.

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They keep turning away homeless but I bet they found space for gaikokujins!

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The address issue also affects welfare. This country needs post office boxes which come with an address.

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Denying shelter to homeless people "reflects society's discriminatory view that they do not deserve public services even at the time of disaster," said Fujita.

Well said! Discrimination is a big problem in Japan that needs to be addressed or put in the spotlight before the olympics.

Also how is this post ok? Isn't this inappropriate and borderline racist?

SatedayaToday  10:32 am JST

They keep turning away homeless but I bet they found space for gaikokujins!

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It's a rot. IMHO, Japanese society is starting to get more and more obsessed with outrage and personal grievances, instead of values and commonality.

The gifts scandal is just strange and un-Japanese (at least 10 years ago it would have been). A minister resigning because he assisted a bereaving family is even stranger, given reported cases of relatives not being able to afford funeral and keeping corpses at home secretly.

This report, together with government refusing 90% of flood victims just goes to show the rot is setting in here.

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