Tama River - Social Problems

Social Problems

Japanese society has become Kakusa shakai (格差社会, unequal society?) from the end of 1990s, and many socially vulnerable lose one's house and was shunted off to the remote region. So there are dens of misery in dry river of Tama river.

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