"We are not garbage!" the homeless movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
Offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. This book shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. It also addresses the origins of increased homelessness and developme...
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New York
Routledge
2006.
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| Series: | East Asia (New York, N.Y)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Homelessness in postwar Japan
- Theoretical framework and hypotheses
- The initial period of the movement (February 1994-January 1996)
- The transitional period of the movement (January 1996-October 1997)
- The final period of the movement (October 1997- mid-2002), with summary and conclusions
- Appendix A: Defining and counting the homeless (in the U.S. and Japan)
- Appendix B: List of surveys used in the study
- Appendix C: Interviews
- Appendix D: Chronology of homeless policy (in Tokyo and Japan).