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Nov 01 2006 4 Comments

Riverside real estate

Tokyo may still be one of the world’s most expensive cities, and the Japanese capital’s capitulation to luxury goods like Louis Vuitton shows no sign of abating; however for a growing number of residents, the double whammy of protracted recession and rigorous restructuring means that a post-redundancy riverside retreat may turn out to be considerably less sumptuous than it sounds.

japanese homeless

A relatively reasonable view, no neighbours,

homeless in japan

and a sizeable vegetable garden being the only advantages.

Tokyo homeless

If indeed you can class them as such.

Categorized: General, Photography

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  1. Peter says

    11/1/2006 at 8:36 am

    I wonder if the government gives away those blue tarps, as all the homeless in Japan seem to use them.

    Of course, one of the downsides to the location may be the summer floods…

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  2. Kevin says

    11/2/2006 at 12:45 am

    Nice crib. A lot better than the paperboard boxes you see in urban Tokyo

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  3. shinobi says

    11/2/2006 at 2:19 am

    that reminds me of all the “homes” in port tampa in florida when i used to live there.

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  4. Ken says

    11/2/2006 at 7:36 am

    I dunno. That first looks a lot better than any I’ve seen in Spain, Brasil, or for that matter, anywhere in the US. It seems that even the homeless do it up better in Japan than in the rest of the world. Not that I’d want to trade places, mind….

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