Reply #2: Speaking from experience...

[Irreverend IX]

They can be found here and there in Japan, often residing in little tent villages in city parks and the outskirts of towns. In Japan, however, most homeless are old men who lost their jobs. One tent city I saw was full of men who used to work in a local factory that closed, leaving them with no marketable job skills. As a culture oriented around nuclear families, Japan doesn't have much of a safety net for single men who find themselves out of work. Women and younger men rarely end up homeless, because they have family support systems, and unlike in America there are almost no homeless youth in Japan.