Global recession swells the ranks of Japanese homeless

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published March 31, 2009.

Japan is facing its worst recession in decades.  The global financial crisis has taken its toll on the nation’s export-driven economy and corporations are laying-off tens of thousands of workers. Many of these newly-unemployed laborers are now living on the streets or in parks. FSRN’s Jason Strother has the story from Tokyo.