Net Nanmin
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Net Nanmin, Net Cafe Refugees, Cyber-Homeless. In Japan, these are names for people who can't afford regular accommodation and therefore live in 24-hour internet cafes or manga cafes to avoid sleeping on the street.
Toda Masanari is 50 years old. He is one of the 10,000 Net Nanmin in Tokyo. I spent some time with him at the 70-room cyber-cafe in Kita-Senju, the northern suburbs of Tokyo. His rent is 59700 yen (540 euro) per month. He manages to find low-paid temporary work to afford this. He doesn't pay a deposit, nor bills and staying there permits him to have an address which is necessary in Japan to apply for a job.
I watched him pass his days in his basement room, the size of a large toilet cubicle, where he reads, watches films, writes about the films he watches and eats when he gets hungry. There are no windows. The cubicles are open at the top allowing the background music to flow down the corridor accompanied by the sounds of people snoring or typing. A shower costs 300 yen. He has everything he needs. "If you don't let things bother you, you can live comfortably" he says.
See full project at www.luigidipasquale.com
Toda Masanari is 50 years old. He is one of the 10,000 Net Nanmin in Tokyo. I spent some time with him at the 70-room cyber-cafe in Kita-Senju, the northern suburbs of Tokyo. His rent is 59700 yen (540 euro) per month. He manages to find low-paid temporary work to afford this. He doesn't pay a deposit, nor bills and staying there permits him to have an address which is necessary in Japan to apply for a job.
I watched him pass his days in his basement room, the size of a large toilet cubicle, where he reads, watches films, writes about the films he watches and eats when he gets hungry. There are no windows. The cubicles are open at the top allowing the background music to flow down the corridor accompanied by the sounds of people snoring or typing. A shower costs 300 yen. He has everything he needs. "If you don't let things bother you, you can live comfortably" he says.
See full project at www.luigidipasquale.com
