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Put up at Eureka Hotel. Thus the addresses reported by consular officials and governors were more likely to Prostitutes Chigasaki the addresses of their workplaces or those written on passports confiscated by officials, not the actual Prostitutes Chigasaki where the women originated. Their primary reason for becoming prostitutes was to save impoverished parents and starving siblings.

He said he was tired of life and was living only by inertia. Yet this was said with a good-humored laugh, and I could not Prostitutes Chigasaki how serious his talk of suicide might be.

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Tsujimoto also said he had no interest in using the self-reliance support centers in nearby Osaka. He did not trust any institution set up by politicians, whom he viewed with contempt. It is tempting Prostitutes Chigasaki think of Tsujimoto as a Prostitutes Chigasaki Thoreau, retreating to a semi-rural location, maintaining a self-reliant lifestyle and casting a cold eye on modern society.

That said, Tsujimoto is situated firmly within the cash economy, preferring to use income from his scavenging Prostitutes Chigasaki to buy food from a supermarket rather than farming.

Indeed, I found few cases of homeless men growing vegetables or keeping chickens, though admittedly in many locations legal obstacles would have made it difficult to do so.

One reason I chose to explore the Muko River was because I had read an account of homeless keeping chickens on the river bank, but Tsujimoto said the local authorities had put a stop to that some time before. It was there that I found Yoshida-san, living under the Shin-Taiko Bridge in a small shack by a footpath. On the other side of the footpath, twenty yards away, Prostitutes Chigasaki four more shacks surrounded by an immense quantity of stinking trash. Two at least were clearly uninhabited and the trash had literally invaded Prostitutes Chigasaki, warping the walls and spewing out from cracks.

Yoshida-san looked to be about He was a stocky man, running to fat, with unkempt beard and wavy black hair, wearing black shorts and sweat-stained gray tee-shirt. Initially suspicious of my presence, he became increasingly talkative and our conversation lasted several hours.

He told me that the mountain of Prostitutes Chigasaki garbage on the other Prostitutes Chigasaki of the path was the legacy of a homeless man who had been driven out with threats of violence by Yoshida and a couple of his friends.

Since then, the local authorities had several times said they were going to clear away the garbage but they had yet to do so. To Yoshida, this was absolutely typical of the rank incompetence and cynical Prostitutes Chigasaki of government in Japan.

He had various conspiracy theories — all the state-run gambling games were fixed, for instance, and elections likewise were decided in advance. It was all so obvious — Japan was a society run by the rich, for Prostitutes Chigasaki rich, Prostitutes Chigasaki corrupt and deeply unfair. It was like an army, in which lower ranks had no power over higher ranks. He knew from experience that Prostitutes Chigasaki would mercilessly exploit their workers. Government policies to help homeless people were a mere excuse to keep people off the welfare rolls.

The state pension, just 70, yen a month, was tantamount to abandoning the elderly to death — and now the government had just admitted to losing millions of pension records. For Yoshida, abundant evidence of the corruption and incompetence of government and other large organizations meant that only an idiot would place any trust in the system. All you can do is live for Prostitutes Chigasaki.

As well as scavenging for cans etc. This gradual criminalization of food-foraging may be placed alongside the gradual expulsion of dwellings from parks, the tentative criminalization of can-collecting, and Prostitutes Chigasaki crackdown before that on re-selling magazines picked out of trains and stations, as part of a consistent pattern whereby the state delegitimizes self-reliant activities performed by homeless people.

Masculine pride, in Japan and many other parts of the world, is Prostitutes Chigasaki to being able to look after oneself. Note, incidentally, that for Yoshida, food-foraging and queuing for hand-outs were activities constructed totally differently from applying for welfare.

At first glance all these activities may seem like an admission that one cannot support oneself. But Prostitutes Chigasaki Yoshida, collecting food thrown out by restaurants and shops was something requiring effort and local knowledge, and not entailing Prostitutes Chigasaki on the state.

The handouts, likewise, came from fellow private citizens rather than the hated state. Meanwhile, he contended that the mountains of food destroyed each day under government regulations amounted to yet another national disgrace. Yoshida said he had been homeless for five years, ever since he had been laid off. He used to work for one of the many auto-part makers supplying Toyota Motor in nearby Toyoda city.

What with low wages, a lively social life and a keen interest in pachinko, he had no savings to tide him over. He had wound up spending the night in a local park, was Prostitutes Chigasaki by schoolboys, and was rescued by a kindly older man who, despite being slightly mentally handicapped, showed him how Prostitutes Chigasaki survive homelessness. He owed his life to this Prostitutes Chigasaki. Eventually the old man fell ill.

He was hospitalized and Prostitutes Chigasaki to apply for livelihood protection on discharge. Prostitutes Chigasaki it was Prostitutes Chigasaki before Golden Week the series of public holiday at the start of Mayand the hospital discharged him when the welfare offices were closed.

Although he could barely walk, he was told to make his way to the emergency homeless shelter and stay there until the Prostitutes Chigasaki ended and he could be placed in a welfare apartment. Yoshida helped him hobble to the shelter and left him there. When he returned to visit three days later, the man was gone.

He blames the welfare authorities. When a person is going to be put on the rolls to receive livelihood protection, the welfare office conducts extensive background checks to make sure the person really has no financial resources and nobody who might provide for them. The latter search starts with parents, siblings and children, and may extend to distant relatives Prostitutes Chigasaki even unrelated friends.

The shame of being the subject of such an investigation is a major factor deterring people from applying for welfare — Prostitutes Chigasaki men, since, as mentioned above, Prostitutes Chigasaki is a key part of their masculine self-image. Yoshida thinks this is what made his friend run away.

In many parts of Japan local schoolboys will violently harass homeless men for their amusement. Another informant, Hirayama-san, who lived in a large shack in Osaka Castle Prostitutes Chigasaki, said that if homeless men did not fight back, the schoolboys would lose Prostitutes Chigasaki and give up harassing them.

Prostitutes Chigasaki, however, took the opposite view. When local boys threw stones at homeless men, it was vital to resist them. He always did. The kids were all cowards at heart. He would give their bicycles a good kicking, or frog-march them to the local police Prostitutes Chigasaki and demand to see their parents.

He said that once he slapped one of them in front of his parents, Prostitutes Chigasaki teach the whole family a lesson. He added that every summer, just before the school holidays began, Prostitutes Chigasaki would ask the police to issue circulars to local schools ordering pupils not to attack homeless people. One of six Prostitutes Chigasaki in a poor family, he says he left school after completing junior high school Prostitutes Chigasaki his parents could not afford to send him to senior high.

He regrets that and would like to somehow catch up on his education and escape from homelessness. He struck me as a man whose cynicism and belligerence covered up an all too evident insecurity. Self reliance and self defense were obsessions for him, but he also looked to mutual assistance among homeless men as a way Prostitutes Chigasaki keeping safe in a dangerous Prostitutes Chigasaki. He had a good friend, a former postman, who lived in one of the shacks near the mountain of garbage.

Yoshida also said Prostitutes Chigasaki he would advise and assist newly-homeless men who arrived at the riverbank, sometimes encouraging them to use the same support facilities that he himself spurned. I had just visited one of the self-reliance centers and showed him some of their published materials. He was surprised at the range of services available and I thought I saw his cynicism waver as I bade him farewell.

For Yoshida, informal bonds of mutual assistance between homeless men were a viable alternative to dependence on the government-run welfare system. His powerful attachment to the old man who showed him the ropes was Prostitutes Chigasaki expression of that impulse. Where Tsujimoto sought security in solitary independence, Yoshida sought it in friendship and cooperation with his peers, a set of pure autonomous relations he contrasted with the cynicism and corruption of non-homeless society.

Here we start to sense why his kind of conception of masculinity is problematic to the state: he valorizes free association between men in groups that cannot be co-opted into larger social units — so unlike the stereotypical corporate warrior whose fight for his company is so often compared to that Prostitutes Chigasaki a soldier fighting for the nation.

My final case study is of a man who got off the streets by successfully applying for welfare. He used to support himself by day laboring, but has been living on livelihood protection for some years. Classical American definitions of homelessness 13 would include Nishikawa, since he is largely cut off from family and society, but he draws a clear distinction between himself and men who live in the street.

He sees himself as having escaped from homelessness, and he had no hesitation in applying for livelihood protection when he Prostitutes Chigasaki the time was ripe. For him, welfare is just another of the resources available in post-modern society. Although he sacrificed a degree of autonomy when he signed on for welfare and sometimes expresses gratitude to the Japanese nation for supporting him, it did not harm his pride much.

This is because Nishikawa does not Prostitutes Chigasaki anyone is really autonomous or self-reliant. He argues that some people may appear autonomous, but in Prostitutes Chigasaki their lives are intertwined with broader society and their thoughts conditioned by the surrounding Prostitutes Chigasaki and media.

He says he still remembers his confusion on seeing the tall American soldiers arriving in his native Prostitutes Chigasaki at the Prostitutes Chigasaki of the Occupation. As a small child, he did not fully Prostitutes Chigasaki the difference between these giant warriors and the Nazi storm troops he had seen on cinema newsreels.

One moment these supermen had been conquering Europe; now here they were taking charge of Japan. After the war, Nishikawa went to high school, Prostitutes Chigasaki many of the teachers had fought in the war and would brag about their exploits and wounds. He recalls the deep sense of disgust he Prostitutes Chigasaki about that — how could they brag when they had lost the war?

Yet this deeply sexist celebration of all-male society was offset by a wry awareness that the war was Prostitutes Chigasaki and so these soldiers would likely never see action.

For Prostitutes Chigasaki, it was Prostitutes Chigasaki refreshing to enjoy the military life safe in the knowledge that any real fighting would probably be done by the Americans. Built by the Americans during the occupation and recently vacated by a U. The facilities were bigger and better than at Japanese bases and were in American log cabin style. Nishikawa especially admired the exceptionally large library Prostitutes Chigasaki it seemed to speak to a superiority of intellect to match that of bodily strength and military technology already demonstrated.

By his own account, Nishikawa has never had sex without paying for it. On the rare occasions when the drunken Nishikawa managed to achieve penetration, he recalls being rewarded with a sudden sharp pain in his penis, which would somehow get pinched in the inter-uterine contraceptive device Prostitutes Chigasaki by the Susukino women.

For him it symbolized the fundamental impossibility of true love or communication between the sexes. Like many Nihonjinron scholars, Nishikawa also sees deep significance in diet, over-simplifying Japan and the US as fish- Prostitutes Chigasaki meat-eating cultures.

Prostitutes Chigasaki Japanese men, by contrast, had no special skills and would just carry on walking the streets until they keeled over and died. He developed an obsessive interest in violent crime in the US.

He could name half-a-dozen American mass murderers, Prostitutes Chigasaki with the dates, locations, and circumstances of their crimes. Nishikawa had a deep sense of shame regarding his failure to be a credit to his family — a sense made all the more acute because he is an oldest son, out of three brothers and one sister.

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I thought I was some kind of Emperor just because I happened to be Prostitutes Chigasaki oldest son. I Prostitutes Chigasaki an A-class war criminal. That lingering regret for failed manhood is a theme I often come across among homeless men, though never expressed so clearly as by Nishikawa.

That said, going on welfare does not necessarily mean abandoning all traces of self-reliance. Many Kotobuki men drink away their welfare money in the first few days of the month and are then penniless again. Prostitutes Chigasaki is not like that.

In the last couple of years he has even made several trips back to his native Kyushu, to see his sister and look for old Prostitutes Chigasaki friends, riding slow local trains, outrageously fare Prostitutes Chigasaki and feigning drunken unconsciousness when accosted by authority.

His feelings of shame are focused elsewhere, on deeper matters. Self-reliance for him is an unattainable metaphysical ideal; reliance on an employer or Prostitutes Chigasaki welfare agency, an incidental detail. Their dwellings are homemade; they are mostly quite well-built. Though most are small, some are large enough to bear comparison with a small apartment. I have observed some that Prostitutes Chigasaki legal postal addresses with mail delivered to them.

Many Prostitutes Chigasaki gas from camping stoves, Prostitutes Chigasaki have water supplies from nearby fire hydrants, drinking Prostitutes Chigasaki etc.

At least one case has been documented of a homeless dwelling with a solar panel supplying electricity. These books testify to the resourcefulness and skill of the men who build, maintain, decorate, and live in them. As well as admiring the skill of the design, one is also struck by the air of domesticity, the homelinessof Prostitutes Chigasaki dwellings.

Living without women and with very little cash obliges shack-dwellers to acquire skills long since lost to most Japanese men and considered the preserve of women. In a society where many men can Prostitutes Chigasaki peel an apple, they must cook for themselves. They also have to build, maintain, furnish, and repair their own living space, unlike most men, who will pay professionals to do these things for them.

So although they have very little by way of income or possessions, and may on occasion join lines of people waiting for food hand-outs, in some ways they Prostitutes Chigasaki seem more self-reliant than most mainstream men.

As with can-collecting, so with park-dwelling: Japanese cities have gradually turned the Prostitutes Chigasaki on this lifestyle, which is seen — not without justification in some cases — as obstructing the use of parks by non-homeless people. By such methods have the authorities gradually whittled down the park populations.

The elaborate homemade dwellings celebrated by Sogi, Sakaguchi and Nagashima are becoming steadily harder to find. The irony is that once these rather self-reliant men have been put through the Prostitutes Chigasaki system, they will likely be either clients of the state living on welfareor in a more desperate homeless condition, expelled from their park communities and reduced to living in cardboard boxes.

Some of those evicted men may well still be homeless, but away from the more noticeable concentrations.

Many others will be on welfare; the number of people receiving livelihood protection reached 2. At the same time the steady decline in secure employment, the Prostitutes Chigasaki increase in the numbers of freeters, dispatch personnel and other insecure forms of labor, and an unemployment rate hovering around 4.

As mainstream society slowly tightens the noose on homeless settlements, repressively throwing them onto the street or Prostitutes Chigasaki placing them in welfare hostels and Prostitutes Chigasaki apartments, how do Prostitutes Chigasaki men conceptualize their place in society?

Though my informants show a tremendous variety of personality, outlook and lifestyle, they have certain things in common. For a start they do not beg Prostitutes Chigasaki and this is something true of most homeless Japanese in my experience. In contrast, most of them do not seem to hesitate to accept food handouts takidashi from volunteers, NPOs etc. What is shameful Prostitutes Chigasaki to ask for help, not to accept what is offered. Some of these men have been turned down for livelihood protection — others insist that they do not want full-scale welfare, just a little help to get by.

So accepting assistance entails a kind of hierarchy of shame. Begging is seen as the most abject abandonment of masculinity, and Prostitutes Chigasaki few homeless Japanese men will do it. It is a loss of manhood in the sense of adulthood as well as masculinity — only children beg to get something for nothing.

It leaves no room for psychological maneuver. Those who hand out the food Prostitutes Chigasaki shame by addressing the homeless men who are typically older than themselves as senpai seniorcreating an image of inter-generational cooperation rather than one-sided charity.

Standing in line for food tickets is also a humiliating business, but in a sense the tiring wait at the ward office makes the activity somewhat akin to work done Prostitutes Chigasaki get pay. Applying for livelihood protection feels to some like an admission of failed manhood comparable to begging, though others see livelihood protection as comparable to the pension they never got from their decades of insecure labor. Informal economy activities such as can recycling fit very well with notions of masculine self-reliance, making it all the more galling when the state delegitimizes such work.

In short, each of the survival strategies available to homeless men in Japan carries different implications for masculinity, usually as constructed relative to the Prostitutes Chigasaki, or broader society. That has been the main sense in which I have used the term in this paper.

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When masculinity is constructed relative to womena Prostitutes Chigasaki picture emerges. None of the men discussed here has been able to sustain married life; none of them can expect to be looked after by a wife, daughter or daughter-in-law in old age; none of them has a girlfriend or can even afford to go with prostitutes; and the best they can Prostitutes Chigasaki for in terms of female companionship is a friendly smile from a matronly waitress at a cheap bar.

Yet the way they talk positions Prostitutes Chigasaki not relative to women but relative to the state or mainstream society — perhaps because they sense they are on firmer ground in the latter debate.

My case studies give some indication of the options available. They may adopt a pragmatic approach that ekes out a minimal level of survival until the welfare system kicks in Ogawa Prostitutes Chigasaki a radical refusal to compromise with the repressive-tolerant authorities Hotoke ; a hermit-like detachment from mainstream society Tsujimoto ; outright denunciation of mainstream society and an emphasis on camaraderie among those living on its margins Yoshida ; or a metaphysical view of human life that makes the differences between mainstream and margin appear trivial Nishikawa.

Prostitutes Chigasaki these varying strategies have in common is that they soften the blow to the ideal of masculine self-reliance that comes from not being able to support oneself economically in a mainstream lifestyle. In their various ways, these men are trying to come to terms with their failure to match conventional views of manhood.

Prostitutes Chigasaki some of them point out, the stereotypical salaryman is far from self-reliant himself. He relies on his company, his boss, his wife, etc. His autonomy is also limited. Despite the language Prostitutes Chigasaki employs, the Homeless Self-Reliance Support Prostitutes Chigasaki is really an exhortation to homeless men to trade in one mode of limited autonomy Prostitutes Chigasaki another — to become self-reliant in a narrowly-defined, socially sanctioned way.

As the slow but steady criminalization of homeless lifeways proceeds, I anticipate that the increasingly beleaguered settlements of huts and tents may take on the character of last redoubts. As their inhabitants are gradually expelled, they will be pushed further from mainstream society, or brought into the welfare system, their masculinity Prostitutes Chigasaki undermined by the need finally to abandon the brave image of the self-reliant man.

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In Nelson, for instance, in August , a grand jury criticized lax morality in the town and submitted an indictment for vagrancy against two Japanese living with unmarried women.

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Her parades to advertise the brothel are pitiful; no one bothers to look at her anymore as she slowly walks down the streets of Yoshiwara with her servants. Eventually, it comes to Izumi's attention that this may be the end for her and the little freedom she had.

Slowly, she is falling in debt with her owner and she has no one to turn to. Of course, the many lovers she had would drop everything for her She writes a letter to the first lover that comes to Prostitutes Chigasaki, and asks if they can visit her the next night for one last moment together.

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