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Showcase: Disposed Of

During Japan’s boom, these men built towers and highways. Shiho Fukada has found them waiting in meal lines and collecting cans, as Miki Meek reports.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/showcase-101/

Japan’s economic boom once kept the men in the Kamagasaki district of Osaka busy working on buildings and highways. Now they pass the time waiting in free-meal lines and collecting cans.

“It’s become a dumping ground of old men, where alcoholism, poverty, suicide and loneliness prevail,” said Shiho Fukada, a freelance photojournalist.