The Cyber-Homeless of Japan
By Roadjunky, Posted May 11, 2009
Home is a leather chair and a computer screen in an internet cafe booth.
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The homeless of Japan have long astonished Western travelers by their elegant housing solutions and often extensive consumer devices arrayed around their makeshift shelters. As this news report shows, however, there is another kind of vagrant in Tokyo: the cyber-homeless.
By paying a fee for an internet booth and unlimited hot drinks. these cyber-homeless can sleep in the leather chair and watch cartoon porn all night.
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it…
Photo from Shinyai
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I just recently heard about this from Jetsetzero.tv which is a group of guys basically traveling around the world on a very short shoe string. If you check out Tokyo: Season 2, Episode 6 – Being poor you can see there adventure of internet cafe living.