"Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I read this on the BBC:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3175319.stm
>
> I don't know if it will work here, but it will be interesting to see
> what happens. It was always a mag I picked up in the UK, but I'm not
> sure how its style of journalism will translate to Japanese.

The Japanese take on the homeless situation is without fault. They simply
ignore it. If somebody wants to be homeless, they're free to be homeless.
Nobody is going to help them be homeless so there are very few homeless.
Those that don't want to be homeless have as many options in Japan as people
in sepponia do. They can always get a job pushing a shovel if they want a
place to call home. Hell, if somebody wants a full-fledged house, all they
have to do is take a ten kilometer hike from my house and they can take
their pick of free houses from a whole ghost town. I can't say that the
roofs don't leak, or that the wells aren't dry, but they're houses, and the
one remaining guy living there isn't going to be adverse to a decent hard
working neighbor.