“I only have 1 yen, I can’t pay the electricity bill” A woman with a small child is seen lining up for a New Year’s Eve soup kitchen in Yogi Park, Naha, Okinawa – Ryukyu Shimpo Published on December 31, 2024 at 15:11 Updated on December 31, 2024 at 15:12 A long line formed at a New Year’s Eve soup kitchen = Yogi Park, Naha City, on the 31st Author of this article: Miyazawa Yukisuke In an effort to support people in financial difficulty, the Okinawa Shuri Day Laborers’ Union (Okinawa Nihonro) started a New Year’s Eve soup kitchen on the 31st at Yogi Park in Naha City and on Parasol Street, adjacent to Heiwa Street. In addition to food such as stew, rice, and instant noodles, winter clothing was also distributed. About 170 men and women lined up at Yogi Park. There was also a woman with a young child. A man (50) who said he was working non-regularly said, “My salary hasn’t increased, but prices have gone up and so has my rent. “It’s been a year of nothing but bad things,” he reflected. A woman in her 70s who uses a cane has found her life unstable since she lost her job due to the coronavirus pandemic. “My pension isn’t enough, I have no job and I only have one yen. “It’s good that it’s winter, but I won’t be able to pay my electricity bill in the new year,” lamented a man at the Okinawa Labor Union secretariat, who said, “The number of people waiting in line has tripled since before the coronavirus outbreak. In the past there were more men than women, but now it’s half men and half women. “I feel that the number of people suffering from poverty is increasing,” he said. (Omitted) *See source for full text.
>>1 The poor are not helped, but hundreds of thousands of yen are given to households with children Child support allowance = 43,070 yen in tax per month (paid in a lump sum on odd-numbered months) Child allowance = 10,000 to 15,000 yen in tax per month (paid in a lump sum once every few months) . 100,000 yen given to children 50,000 yen given to children More benefits given to children Travel allowance given to children 20,000 to 30,000 yen given to children per month 10 kg of rice given to children To poor children 50,000 yen payment Children in some areas given a luxurious overseas trip as a gift More payments to children An additional 3 trillion yen given to children Increased child allowance 50,000 yen payment to children 3.6 trillion yen given to children every year Yearly payments to households with children Tax-funded school trip gift for junior high school students in Katsushika Ward Free school (citizens are forced to pay for the tuition of complete strangers’ kids) Free school lunches (citizens are forced to pay for the food of complete strangers’ kids).
>>2 NEETs have 0 yen… but if you dig through the change from vending machines, you can be 10 to 100 times richer than this old lady. Raise your world rank with steady work!
It’s like looking at a refugee camp in a developing country. This news is symbolic of Japan getting poorer and poorer under the hellish LDP-Komeito government.
I heard that throwing just one yen coin into the offering box is more lucky than throwing a single 10 yen coin, but when I went to the shrine earlier, I only had one 10 yen coin, so I reluctantly threw it in.
How can someone who has “only 1 yen in their pocket” still be healthy enough to go out and walk around? There are no people like those you see on TV lining up for soup kitchens, but they’re not extremely skinny, they have the stamina to line up for soup kitchens, and they cheerfully express their dissatisfaction.
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