京都鴨川橋下のホムレス村自転車Homelessness is not as obvious in Japan as in the United States.
Japanese homeless people do not beg, are not threatening, and tend to be very tidy.
Certain areas of large cities - Airin, in Osaka - have a high concentration of former day laborers who sleep in flop houses.
Still, though run down, these areas do not look or feel significantly different from other, more upscale, areas of urban Japan. (Compared to the US and Europe, Japan has no crime ridden slums.)
The make-shift shelter pictured at right is under a bridge along Kyoto's Kamo River.
Homeless people have stored various necessities - including a couple of old bicycles - under the bridge to keep them dry.
At night, they will return and sleep nearby.
Still, the river is safe and used twenty-four hours a day by the residents of the city.
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