Japanese "Blues Karaoke", hip hop, improvised shelter villages in city parks, black market goods, cheap labour, begging and protest are all part of the homeless life in Osaka, Japan's second largest city. Osaka has the largest homeless population in Japan, a population that was soaring even before the economic crisis began.
In June, Osaka's homeless began rioting against police brutality and eviction plans.
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This is a 2-part series in homelessness in Osaka, Japan. The news team interviewed and filmed many homeless people and activists mostly respectively and sympathetically. Then an expert was interviewed to discuss how homelessness might be tied to the global economy. The news team managed to film inside several areas where the Osaka homeless is concentrated - areas rarely exposed in the mainstream international media. Certainly completely unexpected for me to see areas like that in Japan. The sympathetic treatment of this story would probably be considered bias if applied on a different subject, but on a subject so neglected I would believe the treatment is fair.
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