Talk:Homelessness in Japan

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 September 2020 and 14 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Otowan.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 23:48, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

"For this reason, there are more homeless men than homeless women in Japan"

the source for that quotation is the Christian Science Monitor, not a peer-reviewed journal of sociology. I doubt that all sociologists would accept the argument. In fact, to the extent that it has been covered by reliable sources, I expect the matter is controversial. Therefore I suggest removing or substantially weakening the claim in the article - 'journalist X of the christian science monitor suggests that the reason for homeless men outnumbering homeless women is Y' or whatever. --129.67.169.238 (talk) 16:39, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

upon reading the article a second time, I notice that most of the claims it makes are backed up with the casual empiricism of journalists. journalists may be considered reliable sources for, say, accounts of events, statistics etc. but they are not at all reliable when it comes to the truth about causal links. editors need to consult academic texts, not dilettantes. --129.67.169.238 (talk) 16:46, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Copyright violation

The first line of this article was lifted exactly from the BBC website here and needs to be changed or deleted! MeegsC | Talk 18:58, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Koala Incident

about the " ... which cost a combined $1.4 per year to feed. " I think someone aught to specify if that is suppoese to be one dollar and 40 cents or 1.4 million dollars. Seems unlikely that one and a half dollar would spark news headlines. // Knarris —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.216.110.217 (talk) 20:05, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Biased much?

This whole article seems a little biased and only contains facts about how bad homelessness is and not any other relevant information. Perhaps how there are around 10,000 homeless people in all of Japan, or maybe that there are around 5 times more homeless people in Los Angeles than all of Japan combined. Possibly even the 3 different systems of help for homeless people that can be found on the Japanese page for homelessness in Japan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.26.65.184 (talk) 00:56, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Rent in Tokyo

Uhhhh, I just checked a Japanese rental website (http://rent.homes.co.jp/), there's apartments on Tokyo, 2 minute walk from central Tokyo station that go for 70,000yen a month, even using current exchange rates that's only $870USD. Going Further north and still being 10min from central Tokyo by train and you see apartments for 56,000yen, so where did $1250 come from? Rental prices are not a problem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.64.228.136 (talk) 23:34, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

I am thinking of adding information to this article

Hello, I am a student editor and I am thinking of adding new material for this article. Here is my sandbox and my bibliography. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! --Otowan (talk) 01:16, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

People of obscurity?

I think something here was lost in translation: "In 2018, number of homeless people counted in Japan was 4,977 (4,607 males, 177 females and 193 people of obscurity)".[12]

Perhaps a Japanese speaker can clarify what is meant in the original text by the term 'People of obscurity'. Does this mean that they fall into neither category, or is their gender simply unknown to those doing the count?

Thanks, Chezmoi (talk) 09:46, 9 February 2022 (UTC)