Kamagasaki, infamously known as "Japan's largest slum". However since 2012 the area has been significantly cleaned up. A walk though the area today is rather mild. There are fences along the sidewalk in many places to keep people from setting up cardboard box shelters. The area's streets also contain a number of older men who either work as day laborers or live off of welfare. While some of the the buildings are old, most are clean and well kept.
Keeping with the area's reputation, one doya did have animal excrement smeared all over the hallway and outside nearby an old guy was peeing openly into the street. However since Japan is relatively drug free, the area was safe. Its merely a place where lifetimes of accumulated mistakes are collected and housed.
Osaka, Japan
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"Lifetimes of mistakes". Very well put.
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