Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ23647

Marginality in Japanese Society : Globalisation, Nojukusha, and Homelessness in Contemporary Japan

Authors(1) :-Arpan Banerjee

This paper focuses on the hiyatoi (day labourers) and how they became nojukusha (persons who sleep outside, people with rough sleep). The hiyatoi are people who make a living from informal jobs, such as day jobs, street jobs, or contract jobs at construction sites and in factories. During the ‘Archipelago Remodeling’, the period of high economic growth in the 1960s, the day workers took part in the construction of highways, bullet trains, etc. When these workers reached retirement age and Japan was severely impacted by the recession, they were unable to find new employment and were forced to spend their nights in flop houses in order to work in the shaky construction industry. If they lost their jobs, they would also lose their homes. Due to their structural weakness, they were more easily identified as homeless people.

Authors and Affiliations

Arpan Banerjee
Research Scholar, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Hiyatoi, Ikizurasa, Nojukusha, Yoseba, Deyosebisation, Globalisation, Internet Café Refugees.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 6 | Issue 4 | July-August 2023
Date of Publication : 2023-08-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 28-40
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ23647
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Arpan Banerjee, "Marginality in Japanese Society : Globalisation, Nojukusha, and Homelessness in Contemporary Japan", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp.28-40, July-August.2023
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