Japan aging homeless

OSAKA, JAPAN - MARCH 31: People walk around shops around Airin in Nishinari ward in an area of home to one of the country's largest homeless and day-laborer populations in Osaka prefecture, Japan on March 31, 2018. Japan, the world's third largest economy, once prided itself on being a universally middle-class society and free of the poverty with the rest of other wealthy countries, but thousands were trying to live onto the streets to become "homuresu" with the collapse of the bubble economy in the 1990s, which shattered Japan's promise of lifelong, secure company jobs for all men. Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry reported in early January 2017 there were over 10,890 homeless in Japan, but unofficially there are thousands more under-employed and day labourers who are struggling to survive as the country struggles along with the world economy. (Photo: Richard Atrero de Guzman / AFLO)