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Homelessness in Japan increased sharply due to the rise in unemployment. 〔(Japan's homeless ) BBC News, accessed June 1, 2009〕 ==History== At the beginning of the 1990s, the homeless in Japan were viewed as a nuisance. The government tried to get rid of the street people "because the environment there needed beautification".〔() share-international.org, accessed January 28, 2011〕 Due to endless bureaucratic obstacles, it was quite hard for the homeless to obtain benefits that they might have been eligible to receive. Only in 1997 did Tokyo at last acknowledge the existence of the homeless and start negotiating. In 1998 officials claimed there were around 3,700 homeless in Tokyo alone. Homeless support groups estimated the number to be close to 5,000 and indicated that this number was rapidly increasing.〔(Homelessness in Japan ) share-international.org, accessed June 1, 2009〕 In 2001, the government reported there were approximately 25,000 homeless people in Japan.〔Levinson, David, (''Encyclopedia of Homelessness'' ), v.1, 2004. Cf. article on Japan, especially (p.326 )〕 Homelessness has grown noticeably more widespread in Japanese society since the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble across the 1990s, and the resulting "Lost decade" of economic stagnation. This has resulted in higher unemployment, a contributing factor towards potential homelessness. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Homelessness in Japan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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