After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly…
Net Cafe Refugees
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Internet cafes have existed in Japan for over a decade, but in the mid 2000s, customers began using these spaces as living quarters. Today, more than one in three Japanese are temporary workers, with little benefits and no job security, and salaries too low to rent their own apartments. Without these internet cafes--now equipped with showers and laundry service--there would be many more people who have jobs but no homes.
Distributor: MediaStorm
Length: 10 minutes
Date: 2014
Genre: Expository
Language: Japanese / English subtitles
Grade: 7-12, college, adults
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