Analysis

Tokyo, Japan — Six months to the Olympic Games

Flocks of young people and tourists seeped past like muddy streams, filling the world-famous Shibuya Scramble intersection. More than 100,000 were gathering there to celebrate the New Year’s Eve countdown. A few blocks away at a small playground, around 50 homeless people who live in parks, together with their supporters, quietly congregated to welcome the New Year. Since all of the day worker centers and city offices are closed for the holiday, around this time of the year homeless people come together by building tents and sharing meals. It’s been an…