Inside Japan’s POOREST Homeless Town | A Walking Tour Yokohama’s CHEAPEST Neighborhood
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2024
- In today's video, we explore the largest slum in Yokohama.
In this Town, There are so many poor people and homeless who are living in cheap loding houses.
Also Kotobuki-cho is an area with a Hidden history and culture, deeply connected to the development of Yokohama and its interactions with the world.
🚶♂️Highlights
・Social Background
The role of Kotobuki-cho during the post-war reconstruction era and the current demographic composition.
・History of Kotobuki-cho
The development of this area and the impact of Yokohama's opening to foreign trade in the Meiji period
・Modern Kotobuki-cho
Features of the area, weird spots, and local alleys
This video is not just a tour, but a deep dive into the social and historical undercurrents that shape Kotobuki-cho . Perfect for those who want to understand the lesser-known aspects of Japanese society and the complexities of urban poverty.
#japan #japanlife #japanvlog
Your slum area looks like our rich business district, even more clean.
Which country are you?😆
@@KeilandWalk I'm in the U.S. and not even our nice city areas are this nice... What were you afraid of? Someone talking loudly?
今はだいぶきれいになりましたね。僕が小学校の頃、20年ほど前は子供では入れないような・・・そこら中で火が、焚火があがっていたり。今は警察官に注意されますが、当時は朝から路上に座って酒を飲んでいる人が結構いました。まだ汚いけど、全然きれいになりました。
Ridiculous comment.....
lol, i have the same exact feeling for watching this video. seems like a decent neighborhood . but then again i live in indonesia, so the living standard isn't even comparable.
If you think this is a slum area, then you haven't seen a real one.
I sat through the entire video waiting for the part where the “slums” would appear.
This is JAPAN😎👍
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Yeah this is just a poor neighborhood.
Japan is an interesting case study in poverty. In general rental housing affordable to the poor sometimes doesn't have baths and maybe not even kitchens beyond a hotplate. So there is definitely a feeling by local and national govt that these basic needs must be met so they subsidize access to shower and bath facilities, etc
Also many businesses view they have a role to society and not just shareholder value so many struggle to keep prices low especially in poorer areas.
Mental health treatment in Japan is pretty bad. People can be committed to asylums for a long time and while this keeps them off the streets it's mostly a form of jail. Some of them are quite bad.
Also it's almost impossible to get any kind of welfare and the aid itself is often pretty spartan. There is a huge hidden hunger issue amongst Japanese youth. Semi private "Kodomo Shokudou" have arisen to help feed kids and provide after school care for single parents or parents who have to work late.
One thing Japan has got right is property taxes on housing are very very low and zoning is pretty liberal, leading to a wide array of housing at various price points.
Many poverty specialists in Japan say the issue is mostly treated as "out of sight, out of mind". The big concern with the drastically weakening yen is that the poor may soon be facing dire food insecurity leading to more crime of necessity.
If you can get the hours you can definitely feed and house yourself at min wage in Tokyo. There are places cheap enough to do so. This is mostly unheard of in the west and likely only possible because of the falling land values in Japan.
@@DanielJoyce
*Mental health treatment in Japan is pretty bad. People can be committed to asylums for a long time and while this keeps them off the streets it's mostly a form of jail. Some of them are quite bad.*
If Japan is sending their mentally ill people to asylums, I would say they're doing it right. I live in Canada and here we don't want to infringe on people's personal rights and so our politicians allow all the drug/alcohol addicts to live on the streets.
We also allow the homeless to set up their tents in public parks and under elevated highways and anywhere else they want and we also allow the mentally ill and other violent people to roam the streets being a constant threat to the public because again the rights of all these people trump the rights of the general public to being able to live in a safe and peaceful society.
If any politician ever wanted to open up institutions to house and treat the mentally ill or drug/alcohol addicted and keep them there long term until they get better or if they don't then keep them there indefinitely, there would be outrage among all the 'activists' who would call this inhuman treatment.
And all this doesn't even include all the illegal immigrants/refugees/asylum seekers who our politicians are choosing to house in hotels and other expensive housing that is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year. If you come illegally into Canada you can stay here for months and sometimes years while your case to stay is being heard and so Canadian taxpayers are paying for you all this time for your food, shelter and everything else you need.
Are you being funny making this video calling this area slum and dangerous? The soup kitchen area looked nice, clean, not crowded, except for a small group of harmless senior citizens obediently getting in line for food.
Agree. This is a perfectly safe and clean neighbourhood with normal people trying to survive in their own way
Agreed.
Yeah, this is a beautiful place
This is JAPAN😎
@@Dollarshop tashikani it's clean and not very slum-like. but never assume the area is perfectly safe. you don't know what kind of danger they face you don't live there.
Even though this is a slum and a financially deprived area of Japan 🇯🇵 they still have self respect and keep their streets and everything clean much respect from Brampton Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 👏
Yeah, unlike Mudholes like Detroit, Baltimore, Camden, Newark, Oakland, Gary, Flint, St. Louis, Memphis, Jackson, New Orleans.
@@user-lvqk2wdp8sjn rural areas too, especially in the Midwest
Any sheethole neighboorhoods in Brampton?
Ugh I love Japan hardly any black peoples exist there and people don’t have any tattoos amazing
Unlike the entire state of West Virginia, Maine, Vermont New Hampshire and Pennsylvania which is full of meth, incest and opioids.
Japanese slums are already a posh area here in the Philippines. Come here and I will show you the real meaning of slums.
Because Pacific Islands are different from Asia.
The japanese are just different
I have seen videos of the Philippines slums. At least they look safer than the slums in the USA. In the Philippines, children and women walk freely.
The slum in the Philippines is a lot lot better than the luxurious area in Somalia !
Everything America touches or associates with turns to sad state! Honestly, Japan's slump area is pretty well kept and is better than most major cities in America!
that slum looks 100% richer and cleaner than all of the richest areas in all of the third world countries combined.
Slum? More like a laid-back district. Poor but orderly. There will always be people who will take advantage of the weak. But, in Japan, they are not being neglected.
Yeah agree haha
I've been punched for no reason in my town, screamed at, threatened, everyone is smoking weed or taking some sort of opioid, there's litter on every street and most gardens are overgrown and not maintained. The area in this video seems like an absolute paradise by comparison. It seems so quiet and peaceful, not to mention cheap, that I would seriously consider living there.
I have traveled all over the world and I felt more safe in Japan at any time of day or night than walking my own city's downtown at night. Being armed here is a matter of survival. After I got back home I felt so disillusioned. I really hope to return one day. I Have been learning Japanese at my University as much as I can.
The area would not be considered a slum in the US. Clean, looks orderly.
I was wondering why he felt scared walking through there? That place looks so neat, orderly, and almost like paradise! It just looks like a well-kept business and residential district.
I would totally live there. Clean, safe looking, quiet. The people may be “poor” but they seem alright.
Don't judge ppl bc they dont have money. If you dislike the ppl and the area, dont go. Most don't have money and/or loved ones here. They have no where else to go or no one that cares. You mentioned Yakuza being there. Yakuza is everywhere. At least they have pride. Pride to keep their district clean and peaceful. No where is 100 percent but there really isn't much to fear here. Be nice these are YOUR people.
Thank you for this 🍻🍻
You should visit the slums in the US. Japan slums are high end compared to the states. Back in the late 80s drive by shootings were common. In fact I witnessed one out in front of my high school. I was in Yokohama a few days ago and wish I knew this place because I would have visited
Wanna visit there!
I know a lot of people see this and say it looks nicer than our slums but i really appreciate seeing Japan from a real perspective. I try to show my friends the same thing when we travel and even to others when they visit me in the LA area. Life is not as it seems when you live in these areas. Thank you for the video. ありがとうございます
ARIGATO!!👺
Great video. 😀 I learned a lot from it. 😀 Thank you for making this video.
ARIGATO!!
They dont ask for spare change like they do elsewhere outside of japan
If i have to live in Japan ill live in the slum cheaper rent and it look peaceful.
Good choice👍
This looks pretty safe also, clean and safe.. looks like a nice place to rent for a few days while exploring the town. Will consider it.
Yeah let's check👍
this is very informative
ARIGATO!
You should see slums in the Phillipines
Wanna see and take video!
この動画はすごいよ！I can tell how much effort you put into studying the history of this どやがい! I learned a lot. Really appreciate listening in Japanese and reading translation too. Helps me a lot with my Japanese study. Keep up the good work! Please try one of those shady bars one day. One other place to explore is the massage parlor areas of 新橋 and 五反田.
ARIGATO! !
In world standard of slum, what you showed are not nowhere near being slums.
Thank you so much dear friend 🙏🏻 for New experience today . Look interesting to know more other living and town 🙏🏻. See you 🙏🏻 17:30
Thank you!!
Come to Sri Lanka - they keep places where tourist go clean because the country is heavily dependent on money generated from tourists but where ordinary people live are like slums
Wow I have curious!
This so interesting to see.
Thank you!!
As an American, I can tell you that I can't afford a house or apartment in the US, but maybe I would be able to afford a place in the slums of Tokyo and Yokohama. I wonder how much an apartment would go for in one of those neighborhoods?
AI says:
_So while no precise rent numbers are stated, the context indicates that rent in the doya-gai slum areas of Yokohama is likely very cheap, perhaps just a few thousand yen per month at most, to accommodate those at the lowest rungs of society[3]. The low rents reflect the dilapidated conditions and lack of amenities in these slum districts._
This place is beautiful. I guess culture matters more than money. Even the low income areas of Japan seem to exhibit higher quality standards than high income areas in Western nations.
That’s why I find it hard to believe that this is a slum.
Wow! Just wow! It is like a middle middle to middle lower economic area. It is amazing!
YEAHHH😊
I think this is the nicest "slum" area in the world. Please come to America so we can show you a real slum!
😂
I wanna come🇺🇸🖤
1700円 is not too bad for a hostel in American terms, but I can say someone living in America in Phoenix Arizona can’t find a one bedroom apartment under 188100円 per month, and in similar circumstances (I.e. expensive properties right next to slum areas).
I wish you had a map to see the location. I lived in Japan in the 60's and early 70's. Yamamotoa -cho, Motomachi, Yamate-cho, Silk hotel, Asahi-dia. Water front. Most videos I have some recognition of the area. I dearly loved Yokohama. Bucket list to go home for a few years. YCAC, YIS, YYC, Sankien Gardens.
Plz check my new video! I pick up those area!
When i stayed near Shin Imamiya Station in Osaka, I noticed quite a number of homeless people with tents. The area also slightly 'dirty' than other places I noticed.
Difinitely! Wanna take video there!
面白い情報をありがとう
こちらこそ！見てくれてありがとう😊
The situation is much different in Japan, but I understood.
Its doesnt look slum, see california in USA, and manila slum area in Philippines
This is so clean, no crowding, what are you scared. It looks like quiet private neighborhood
😨😱😰
Looks clean
Your slums really look clean and orderly. Way much better then our slums that sometimes you can even smell the stench of canals or drains. LOL. Even the houses look way much better. Those house here are already for middle income earners. Some Japanese or even Korean move to our country ( outside the capital ) because the food and cost of living is cheap then their own country. The only thing that one can complain is the healthcare as private hospital makes you spend more and public hospitals have long lines and often take long if your checking in.
Thx for telling me!
It’s so scary that the bicycles aren’t even locked 😁. Definitely don’t come to America or Canada and go into a slum area without a local guide…
It would be a joy to finally return and retire in the Philippines if slums were even close to this-relatively clean and orderly.
🇵🇭🖤
What kind of a slum district is this? I did not see any homeless/ squatters, drug addicts, prostitutes, children running around half naked, garbage/rubbish in the area and lastly, where are the Yakuzas?
The Yakuza are all mostly in the rich big cities like Metropolitan Tokyo operating businesses.
They aren't a street gang.
They are hiding😎
@@KeilandWalk So, I now know it is a hide and seek kind of a video. Very interesting.
Nice video, thanks. Actually it was more the British who had merchants and troops in the area, and introduced the technology, not Americans.
Slum functions nightly.
There is no actual slum in east Japan for decades (and that's why no one in Tokyo knows about burakumin/dowa problem).
This is just a normal town where poor people live.
Yeah. "Slums":
This is not a slum. At most, it's a low-income area. Or the locals there are just conservative about modernity and just want to preserve their older homes and structures. Everything is clean.
Some people living too good with their previlage, and sometimes their point of view about standardization is really different.
A little over dramatised. I know and was just in these areas a week ago. Have been here many times over 60 years. The homeless are sleeping in the underpass to Isezakicho, along the riverbank at 16:51 Ishikawacho and in the Noge area. I personally love these areas as they remind me of the old Japan. The back alley bar scene is much more authentic than golden gai at Shibuya.
Japan slum as a LOT LOT better than the slum in the USA.
Where’s the slum area? It looked better than the city I’m living now. And I thought I’m living in a nice place. I think this guy was just telling us how great Japan is.
Japan is Awesome!
Wow, doesn’t look to bad to me. We have encampments camps in my town and they are very scary.
OMG😱
Still look nice and a good place to stay for me. I guess my country is so poor that this place looks luxurious to me
I'm curious!
You can visit the philippines, the poor areas are scary don't go there lol!
it looks really clean, there are lots of bikes left orderly outside and frail elderly walk quietly around - what are you even talking about??? the fear is in somebody's head...
new subscriber here
If you want to make it look bad 😅
Totally the opposite…
Looks way way cleaner then my regular mid class places
In usa
Japan is a clean country
Exactly🤘
次は晴美フラッグでお願いします。
I think I saw some graffiti. Otherwise, it looks like a nice place to live. Please visit the Tenderloin district in San Francisco when you have a chance.
This video is the best example of HUMBLE BRAGGING.
Does it feel good to make disparaging comments about people who are doing the best that they can in life? Are you a better person for calling places slums? I don’t understand what it costs to be kind, empathetic and respectful in this world toward other human beings.
This looks like a pretty nice slum. If it were an American slum, all the bicycles would be stolen, and it wouldn't be safe for the elderly to go out at all.
Slum still better than most countries
I love kotobukicho Yokohama.
Niceee👍😆
Japan slum is the most luxurious compare to the rest of the world especially the USA.
For me the slums in Japan doesn’t look like a slums
ドヤ is equivalent to 「ghetto」English terms by the way 😄
this is nicer than my neighborhood.
OMG🤣
ああ、最後に、日本のあまり良くない部分、私はそれが好きです
Always in Osaka there is a slum
Exactly😎
For being a poor neighborhood, they sure look very good compared with those slums in the US.
Hahaha
The only bothering in that area are gangs, syndicates and yakuzas.
Absolutely😎
10k yen in one day? Holy shit
🤣🤣🤣
Looks like they have plumbing and electricity. Trust it is not a slum as described in the west.
I have curious!
Not remotely slummy...
The narrator's accent is interesting. What region or dialect is it?
I don't think it's an accent. the way he speak sounds more like gyaruo, the male version of gyaru (popular sub culture)
@@Ruriko.Y Thank you for clarifying.
Thank you for showing us an area of Japan and narrating a brief history of its development. I personally think it is a rather peaceful and clean area in comparison to the typical American slums. Japanese people, in general are disciplined and have a sense of pride for their country and community, in my humble opinion. I hope Japan keeps its own culture/traditions and not follow America's current woke culture/trends. It's the only way it will survive and thrive.
Wait it was a slump area....
I couldn't see any slum in this video. I also don't necessarily agree that churches organizing food distribution for the poor should be viewd as and fall in the cathegory of religious extremists. I would argue those organizations are god sent, especially when the State doesn't take care of these people's problems.
Yes I know about the clean slums ,now what else are you hiding ? Smh!
I'm living before in yokohama.my husband japanese
Niceee😘
CLEAN AND ORDERLY ITS JAPAN.!!!!
I rather live here in Japan sometime safer there where I’m from America! 😢
🇺🇸🖤
Where are thier children living well as always its always the, way they take the home from parents when they marry and that's it same in Chinese from the one child policy the grown children have become selfish the elderly live in building with cages that them lieing gown and some belonging cook in the street i don't know where they shower so sad it happends in a lot of countries now so sorry 🌸💛🌻
喋り方が好きです笑
My man never saw NY shady areas i bet.
NY🇺🇸🖤
This is worse than Osaka's Nishinari or Shinsekai??? Not even close
The best slum i have ever seen,America is like zombie town.
YEAH🤣
This is the back of Isezaki-Cho. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Is this a joke? If you want to show a slum area go to Manila’s Tondo district to have a realistic image of a slum area. Hopefully, you get out in one piece. 😂😂😂
you don't understand the meaning of slum
I could easily live there with no fear and pay the cheap rent and eat the cheap foods and have plenty of cheap dates with the local girls 😂😂😂
C9 blaber merged w/ balls. 🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂
Looks like you abuse the terms "slum"
I have to agree with the other comments: Japanese "slums" are not scary, and look like normal living districts. The truly terrifying crimes and slums of USA are nothing like this.
In general, I have noticed that Japan still has a very silver lined image of the America, where as rest of the Western world considers their modern way of living and anything from Hollywood to be bottom of the barrel garbage at worst. I honestly cannot see Japan falling that low, and I hope that Japanese won't be influenced by the many regressive American / Californian trends.
Get out of your "Ivory tower" and see the real world!
OK👍😎
Hi; you are trying to invent things that Japan does not has. You do not have an idea what an slum actually is.
The worst areas of Japan are nothing compared to the liberal/democrat run cities of America. The scary places/slums you referred to are quite nice for California standards where I live.
YEAHHH
「スラム」の意味をもう一回説明して？WWW
define slum again? LOL