Skid Row, Yokohama: Homelessness and Welfare in Japan

The cheapest doya in the Osaka doya-gai of Kamagasaki can still be rented for less than ¥1,000 a night.

Left photo: Listening to a Christian sermon on the street in Kotobuki. If you listen to the end, you can get a free meal. This is called āmen de rāmen (saying amen to get a bowl of noodles). Right: Men lining up for a food handout from volunteers in Kotobuki.

Hamakaze, the public homeless shelter in Kotobuki.

Inside the care tent at the 2013 Kotobuki winter survival campaign. The author is at the far left.