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In Japan homelessness increased sharply due to the rise in unemployment in the 1990s. HistoryAt the beginning of the 1990s, the homeless in Japan were viewed as nuisance. The government tried to get rid of the street people "because the environment there needed beautification". Due to endless bureaucratic obstacles, it was quite hard for the homeless to obtain benefits that they might have been eligible to receive. Only in 1997 did Tokyo at last acknowledge the existence of the homeless and start negotiating. In 1998 officials claimed there were around 3,700 homeless in Tokyo alone. Homeless support groups estimated the number to be close to 5000 and indicated that this number was rapidly increasing. Homelessness has grown noticeably more widespread in Japanese society since the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble across the 1990s, and the resulting 'Lost decade' of economic stagnation. This has resulted in higher unemployment, a contributing factor towards potential homelessness. From Wikipedia under the
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