People & Power - Down and Out in Osaka - 2 Dec 08 - Part 1

People & Power examines the impact of the homelessness problem in Japan's second largest city, Osaka.

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News & Politics

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• aljazeera
• people
• power
• osaka
• japan
• homeless
• G8
• financial
• crisis
• lisa
• cazzato
• barbara
• serra

[AzerChristians]

@ovenification socialism without politicians having "Integrity" and "honesty" is no socialism. If you take a look at some better developed western countries they all move towards socialism, even USA is moving towards socialism, but like ANY ideology, there will always be bad implementers who abuse even the best ideology. Cuba's predicament is mainly due to USA's economic embargo. Many socialist countries also have millionaires & capitalists living there. Such is the trend even with bumpy roads.

[ovenification]

@AzerChristians

lol, socialism. Don't recommend socialism or even talk postitively about socialism if you have not lived in a socialist country. I don't understand why people ever thought it was a good idea in the first place.

[AzerChristians]

capitalism failed Japan which really needs socialism to prevent the big multinational corporations from running the political parties and thus the country, just like in the USA. Obama is TRYING to choke off this link, and soon Japanese people will do MORE demonstrations like those in the Middle East .... to the horror of the Japanese Elite and the American military occupation force will forced to depart .... along with the "Imperial family" parasites.

[inconvenient12345]

how can people be so cruel avoid your family member because their homeless woow thats seriously fucked the look like a first world country but they have a primitive ideology

[thelookout42420]

islam is soooo jealous of western lifestyles!!!

[great1188]

大阪弁ぽいけど、少し違う人達ですね。

[jingfengchen24]

they need to form criminal gangs and make money. if they get caught, they will just be sent to prison--where they have shelter and food every night, for free. So its a win win situation for them.

[seamonkeywater]

this isn't recent it has been going on for decades. its a hush-hush issue in japan, that's why you never hear nor see it.

i was near a park in tokyo and saw the same blue tents in a distance, asked my friend what it was and was told not to look at it.

[saesae31]

There are many homeless people in Osaka, but you must not let an important question go unremarked. Why do they choose Osaka to stay, coming from all over Japan? If the city treats them harsher than other cities do, do you think they, with no home, would stay there?

[linuxrules04]

Who are you kidding? It's obvious AlJazeera just wants to point their fingers at the West as to remind viewers that society pays a price when they embrace the Western lifestyle. At the same time Middle Eastern cities grow thanks to temporary workers from Pakistan and India who will be sent back home to die in poverty there. Yeah, I can see how the Middle East respects humanity so much more. I would like to see a report on problems in Tehran or Damascus. You could show some real expertise there.