You can often see all kinds of human tragedies caused by squatting at home and gnawing at the old people in the social news. In today's Japan, this phenomenon is becoming more and more serious.
With the blessing of aging, squatting at home is not only squatting at home, but also evolving a phenomenon called the "8050 problem".
The so-called "8050 problem" refers to the fact that parents in their 80s must take care of and take care of their children in their 50s.
Japan's NHK TV station has made a detailed report on this social issue.
In the video, the reporter learned about several families with such problems, and the current situation and ending of each family are embarrassing.
A typical case is the accidental death of a 56-year-old man.
In fact, the local government has been concerned about the middle-aged man for more than a month, but there is still not enough time to give him a reasonable placement.
At that time, the man's condition was that his parents had died one after another, and he did not have any ability to survive in society.
While his parents were still alive, he lived on old age and relied on the community's meager handouts when he died.
When the neighbors saw the staff sent by the government, they repeatedly reminded him that if he continued like this, he would die.
And when the staff visited, no matter how he asked the man who was squatting at home, he only replied: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter......
From the point of view of the staff at that time, the squatting man at home had not really had an accident, so he could not be forcibly taken away for medical treatment.
Therefore, I had to go to the man's house regularly to observe his health.
It's just that no one expected that 10 days later, the man died violently at home, and the cause of death was malnutrition!
The head of the administration of the government's social security department expressed great regret for this, admitting that some things were not handled in such a timely manner.
And this 56-year-old who was starved to death squatted at home, in fact, there is a younger brother who is one year younger than him and is in the taxi business.
Originally, the family of four lived together until after the death of both parents.
The relationship between the two brothers drifted apart, and the younger brother moved out.
While helping his brother deal with the aftermath, the younger brother found his brother's notebook.
It can be seen that my brother insisted on keeping a notebook until he died.
The notes contain a detailed record of the money left behind after the death of his parents, after all, it is also related to his own life......
And the elder brother will become the reason for the squatting at home, and the younger brother also told the reporter eloquently.
Back then, my brother failed the university exam, and he has been struggling on the road to retaking the exam.
However, the blow of the second place to Sun Shan made the elder brother finally give up his education and decided to look for a job.
But even if he stepped out of society, his brother still didn't go well. Later, when he had no confidence, he simply escaped from reality and became a member of the family's squatting army.
The younger brother also found his father's diary at home, which recorded in detail the process of the elder brother becoming a squatter in the family.
In the summer of 1989, this intact copy of Japan wrote:
"I haven't eaten with Shin'ichi (my brother's name) lately, so is he really concerned about not having a job?"
"I had another argument with Shin'ichi after dinner, knowing that he didn't want to hear about finding a job, but I still didn't feel comfortable bringing it up. 」
As the older brother spent more time at home, the family relationship became worse and worse.
His mother grew older and suffered from amnesia, and his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer and had to take care of a son who was squatting at home.
It was precisely out of concern about this that my father wrote this sentence in his diary: If I can't move, what will happen to this family?
The elder brother squatted from the death of his parents until the death of his parents. In the past 30 years, he has never had much contact with outsiders.
When government officials came to check his health, they found that his physical condition was okay and he had no intention of going to the hospital.
What the younger brother couldn't understand was: why didn't the elder brother call for help to the outside world when the family was short of food?
Not only this brother, there are many similar examples, which can basically be summarized as: once the parents die, it is basically equivalent to self-condemnation of death.
At present, the number of such elderly people squatting at home in Japan has exceeded 610,000!
Unfortunately, the hidden, long-term and complex nature of this "8050" phenomenon makes it difficult for the government to reach and solve it.
In the future, how to help this group of middle-aged family squatters who have been separated from society for a long time to really get out of the predicament is a new challenge for the Japanese government.