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When your home is a Japanese internet cafe, but the coronavirus pandemic forces you out cnn.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 2 months ago

The Japanese authorities are providing emergency housing to support those living in internet cafes, but the pandemic measures have exposed a problem that goes back decades.
Of those, 4,000 are internet cafe refugees, while more than 1,000 are unemployed and live under bridges and in cardboard boxes and tents in parks and along river banks.
A customer wearing a protective mask enters an internet cafe at night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, April 12, 2020.
To qualify, people need to present an internet cafe membership card or bring receipts to prove they have been living in internet cafes.
Before April 21, internet cafe refugees needed to have proof they'd lived in Tokyo for 6 months.