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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 ...
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.
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 ...
In 2020, the National Diet passed a law expanding the penalties to the download of manga, academic texts, and magazines, as well as banning "leech websites" that provide users hyperlinks to download torrent files of pirated materials, pasting hyperlinks of illegal websites on an anonymous message board, or providing "leech apps" for similar ...
Rooftop slum (Chinese: 天台屋) or penthouse slum generally refers to illegal housing on the rooftops of apartment buildings. In Hong Kong , some people are unable to afford traditional apartments and are forced to wait years for affordable public housing .
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on Friday that she is jumping into the race to be the top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee. The New York Democrat wrote in a letter to ...
From May 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Charles T. Hagel joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 51.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a 33.5 percent return from the S&P 500.
The full film. Set in the slums of 1935 Shanghai, the film begins with a wedding procession. [1] Chen Shaoping, also known as Xiao Chen (), is a trumpet player in the marching band who establishes a romantic connection with his neighbour, a songstress named Xiao Hong who fled the Japanese invasion of Manchuria with her older sister Xiao Yun (Zhao Huishen).