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2020 is a Sinister Year for Homeless People in Tokyo: Why the Olympics are to Blame

Jan 24, 2020 · 6 min read

Meeting in the Blue Tent Village in Yoyogi Park. Photo from visibleproject.org

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…

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