Kamagasaki — Wikipedia
A wikipedia article, free l’encyclopéi.
KAMAGASAKI ( Kamagasaki ) is a district in Osaka, in the Nishinari-Ku district. Airin-Chiku ( Airin district ) is its official name, less known, since 1966.
Kamagasaki is the Japan district with the largest population of daily workers; Their number is estimated at around 30,000 people. Most work for construction companies or in services (such as carriers or guards) [ first ] . Some of them work for nuclear subcontractors, and they are sometimes recruited, under questionable conditions, to go to work, for example, as far as Fukushima [ 2 ] .
Daily workers use to the fullest ( Doyer ) , cheap hotel rooms, which, for a few years, have also been used by tourists in the budget [ 3 ] .
With the economic crisis, many of these workers no longer have the money to pay for accommodation and sleep in the street, while the neighborhood is a popular tourist place, with attractions like the Tsutenkaku tower. In 1998, we counted 4579 homeless in Kamagasaki [ 4 ] .
The neighborhood therefore experiences important problems of alcoholism, drugs [ 5 ] and public health [ 6 ] . Tuberculosis is endemic [ 7 ] .
Volunteer organizations and religious groups organize meal distributions, official public aid being insufficient [ first ] , [ 8 ] . In recent years, the district has been a basis for evangelization by Korean Christian churches [ 9 ] .
The district also has the reputation of welcoming a lot of criminal activities [ 5 ] .
Several important riots took place in the district [ ten ] . In , residents came up against major police forces after a traffic accident. In , young people from surrounding neighborhoods joined daily workers during riots during which the fire was put at Shin-Imamiya station. In , new riots broke out. In , police tried to chase away from the street an seventy (seventy-dizaine) from Sans-Abri, who rebellious. Another riot occurred the , on the eve of the G 8 2008 summit, in response to a police action
- Aoki 2003
- Paul Jobin, “Fukushima or radiation protection, return to interrupted terrain”, Health at work , 2011, p. ninety four
- (in) Manami Okazaki, Nishinari: The largest slum in Japan is attracting a new breed of visitor: backpackers , Metropolis, February 11, 2011, p. 8 .
- Aoki 2003, p. 364
- (in) Lost and found drugs on police site show seedy side of Osaka , The Asahi Shimbun June 6, 2016.
- (in) Justin McCurry, « Drinking too much Sake in Osaka », The Lancet , on January 29, 2005, p. 375-376 [PDF]
- T. Tabuchi et al., Tuberculosis infection among homeless persons and caregivers in a high-tuberculosis-prevalence area in Japan: a cross-sectional study , BMC Infectious Diseases 2011, 11:22 (doi:10.1186/1471-2334-11-22)
- Mélanie Hours, “Urban poverty in Japan” , Transcontinentales , 2007, Document 8, posted on April 15, 2011
- (in) Akira FUJIU, A spiritual awakening in the slums of Osaka , Asahi Shimbun, Le 31 Mars 2013
- Aoki 2003, p. 365
- (in) Hideo Aoki, ‘ Homelessness in Osaka : Globalisation, Yoseba, and Disemployment » , Urban Studies , vol. 40, n O 2, , p. 361-378 ( read online )
- (in) K. ueda, Isolation and Neighboring Relations in Osaka’s Kamagasaki: The Gaps and What Breaks Through Them. To Express is to Live. , Field 7 (spring 2017)
Recent Comments