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Japan's health and welfare ministry says it has identified 5,400 "Net cafe refugees" - a new underclass driven by hard times to doss down in 24-hour cybercafes, the Telegraph reports. These unfortunates are the fall-out from Japan's economic slump following the 1980s boom years. Despute the current rise in Japan's fortunes, …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    heh

    Japanese homeless folk are generally quite industrious (selling used manga, unbrellas, etc) and normally quite well presented. I think our homeless folk could learn a thing or two from them.

    Theres a J-Drama which features a person living in an internet cafe... mmm Maid in Akihibara. Funny if silly show.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    It would help

    It would help they didn't have beds in their cybercafes. They are absoultely wonderful places the cybercafes of Japan, with loads of facilities on offer. It's easy to see how homeless can get sucked into them.

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  3. Nick Pettefar

    Are These The Same People

    that were living under the bridges before, or a newer, more modernistic set of Japanese homeless?

    What about the cardboard city dwellers in Shinjuku Station - do they use WiFi?

    Nick-san

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  4. Dion R

    Ahh well ...

    They could start having LAN wars ... throw a job application on the network n let em fight for it ... This could be a new japanese game show !

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  5. Andy Worth

    RE: Ahh well ...

    Heh...expect to see "LAN wars" or some similar concept appearing on Challenge TV in a few years time, shortly after Takeshi's Castle.

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