March 03, 2003
Dirty secrets
Japan, for all its boasting about being the "second biggest economy in the world" has some very dirty little secrets it likes to shove into a cupboard with all the other shoes that don't fit. And Tokyo, the capital of affluence, has its own ill-fitting wardrobe in the shape of its impoverished enclaves, be they the makeshift-boxes of Ikebukuro station or the ghettos near Tokyo Bay.
Posted by at March 3, 2003 09:22 PM
