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  2. Category:Slums in Japan - Wikipedia

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  3. List of slums - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...

  4. San'ya - Wikipedia

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    San'ya (山谷, San'ya) is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori.A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.

  5. Crossroads (1928 film) - Wikipedia

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    Crossroads (十字路, Jūjiro), also known as Crossways, Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo, is a 1928 silent Japanese drama film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. [1] [2] [3] It is believed to be the first [4] or one of the first [5] [6] Japanese films to be screened in Europe, and often mentioned in conjunction with Kinugasa's other avant-garde film, the two years earlier A Page of ...

  6. Tonogayato Garden - Wikipedia

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    The garden is centered on a pond and uses the natural terrain of the Musashino Plateau by incorporating the valleys found in the terrace cliffs into its design. [3] The highlight is the strikingly different types of landscape: a scenic spacious lawn on the top, [3] steep slopes, a pond with waterfalls and bamboo forest at the bottom. [5]

  7. Rooftop slum - Wikipedia

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    A housing crisis developed in the 1950s and 1960s when a large number of refugees left mainland China and moved to Hong Kong, creating a large, unmet demand for affordable housing options and squatting in shanty towns or rooftop slums. [1] The census of 1971 reported 27,000 people living in rooftop dwellings. [2]

  8. Kamagasaki - Wikipedia

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    Kamagasaki (釜ヶ崎) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (あいりん地区) became the area's official name in May 1966.. It has the largest day laborer concentration in the country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius in this area, part of which has been in slum-like conditions until as recently as 2012, containing run ...

  9. Teahouse (play) - Wikipedia

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    On 16 July, 1992, at the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, the old version of "Tea House" performed 374th in the Capital Theater and became a farewell performance. On 12 October, 1999, Tea House re-arranged by the Beijing People's Art Theatre with a new lineup was performed at the Capital Theater . The ...