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On October 3, 2008, after the arson incident on the Minami adult video store in Osaka, the prefectural governor of Tokyo, Ishihara Shintaro, made the following comment concerning lodging establishments in Sanya and the people displaced from the fire, “If you go to Sanya, there are plenty of places you can stay for 200 or 300 yen, but in ...
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 ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces sanctions on firms based in China, India, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, for their alleged support to Russia in the Russo–Ukrainian war. [69] 28 June – Thousands protest at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over multiple alleged sexual assault cases involving U.S. servicemembers against residents of Okinawa ...
At least four people have been injured after an explosion tore through a building in downtown Tokyo on Monday, 3 July. Thick smoke swelled in the air after the blast scattered debris across a busy ...
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 ...
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]
People ran to escape a fire inside a Tokyo subway car on October 31 amid multiple reports citing police that a man brandishing a knife had been arrested after injuring several people.Multiple ...
A fire swept through the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on the evening of March 7. About 1,000 residents of the area lost their homes in October when another blaze burned ...