In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 photo, men walk in Kamagasaki, Osaka, western Japan. Japan’s biggest slum, Kamagasaki, is visible just blocks from bustling restaurants and shops in Osaka, the country’s ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

Yokohama, Japan – On a Saturday evening in Kotobuki, a dozen drunken old men fill an illegal gambling den in a dimly lit back alley for bets on powerboat races and other contests. They consume beer ...

A ten minute video clip of news footage from the Kamagasaki riot in Osaka, Japan 1990. For information about the events, see 1990: Worker insurgency in Osaka.