Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 photo, men walk in Kamagasaki, Osaka, western Japan. Japan’s biggest slum, Kamagasaki, is visible ...

OSAKA—An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting angry cries of protests and desperate expressions of helplessness. About ...

The article below was sent to the ICC by a comrade in Japan: it describes the emergence and decline of the squatters' and day-workers' movements which have marked the life of several Japanese cities - ...

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Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a ...

Having made his name as the go-to photographer for Shuji Terayama's underground theatre group Tenjo Sajiki during the late '60s, Issei Suda has remained woefully underappreciated by the masses – ...

Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan go missing on purpose to get a second shot at life. The South China Morning Post spoke to two men who have disappeared from their old lives. "I was ...