On January 29, 2007, after Japanese television broadcast a film documentary about "Internet Café Refugees", the issue of Internet café refugees received social attention.
According to the survey, the "Internet café refugees" are mainly distributed between the ages of 20 and 40, and the number is increasing, and some even spend 30 consecutive nights
Behind this reality, how many Japanese social Internet café refugees are hiding various lives!
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In Japan, Internet cafes have become sanctuaries for certain groups in Japan who are socially displaced and rely on Internet cafes to survive.
So what exactly does an Internet café in Japan look like, allowing people to live here for months or even years?
The small space is the characteristic of Japanese houses, and Japanese Internet cafes separate each computer slot into a closed room.
Each room can only accommodate one person, and in the small space there is only a computer, a leather chair, a lamp, a headset and a hanger.
Each room will be enclosed with partitions to form a space of about 2 square meters.
Compared with the average Japanese Internet café, which charges 100 yen (about 6 yuan) per hour, the cost of staying overnight will not exceed 1,000 yen, and many migrant workers only earn 800 yen per hour, which is almost perfect choice for them to stay in an Internet café.
You should know that even ordinary hotels that are too crowded to be able to get 3,000-5,000 yen a night, which is an unbearable pressure for ordinary migrant workers.
Therefore, in Japan, where the economy has been sluggish for a long time, Internet cafes have slowly become the dwelling places of many down-and-out people in Japan.
Although the environment here is not as good as an apartment, it is cheap and free, and there is no need to pay for water, electricity and other costs.
In terms of use value, it's actually like a minimal hotel.
After living and working, some people regard the 2 square meters of small grid as their home.
Although it is said that it is thousands of miles away from the so-called real home, due to their limited economic ability, these people have been stranded in Internet cafes for a long time.
According to a recent statistics by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Japan, the number of refugees in Internet cafes in Tokyo has exceeded 4,000, and the number has only increased with time.
So why is the Internet café environment so narrow, but there is still a steady stream of people entering?
In fact, these people live in Internet cafes for a variety of reasons, some people are fired because they are unemployed, have no money to pay rent and are homeless;
Some people run away from home because they have conflicts with their families, others have debts outside and take shelter here, and there are also people who are disappointed in life and escape from reality.
In short, most of the people who come to live in Internet cafes are people who are not living well.
They eat and drink lhasa in Internet cafes, and even their private life needs are solved in Internet cafes.
The existence of a group of Internet café refugees has become a huge social problem in Japan.
Most of these refugees do not have stable jobs, some are temporary workers, some are migrant workers, some are dispatched staff, and only a few are regular employees of the company.
We will be confused and ask, why are there such groups as Internet café refugees?
In fact, the emergence of Internet café refugees has a lot to do with the use of contract workers in Japan to reduce costs.
Some young people cannot become regular employees of the company after graduation, so they rely on part-time work or dispatch staff to survive, and they work from young people to middle age.
So we will see that the people who use Internet cafes for a long time are mostly people in the 30-40 age group.
Internet cafes provide a place where people at the bottom of Japanese society can stay. In the stressful Japanese environment, many Japanese people have a lot of people at the bottom who can't afford to rent a house without a real estate certificate.
Instead of living on the streets, these displaced people at the bottom should commit themselves to temporarily transitioning to Internet cafes and reducing unnecessary trouble for social security.
As for the Internet café refugee group, living in the 2 square meter Internet café grid is safer than the ultra-wide road and oversized square.
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Tadayuki Sakai is a middle-aged man in his early 40s who has lived in an Internet café for more than 4 months.
He confessed that in the past few months, all I have felt is despair, I don't want to be Japanese anymore, I want to live in various countries and places in the world for a few years, and I can play while working.
He used to work for a credit card company and has now quit. At that time, he recalled, he was very anxious and had a lot of mood swings.
"Working 100 to 120 hours of overtime a month, I don't have time to go home, I work day and night, I can only sleep in the office." Speaking of this, there were slight tears in his resolute eyes.
"Later, I came to the doctor and said I was suffering from depression. Colleagues and friends say behind my back that I have something wrong. ”
He said that the boss also began to hate him, sometimes scolding him and even beating him.
Later, Sakai couldn't bear it and chose to resign, ending more than 20 years of nine-to-five office life.
Sakai's new job now is as a telephone operator, and when it comes to living in an Internet café, he initially thinks it's a joke.
After 16 months in this cramped cubicle, Sakai's vision of a new life was lost again, and he felt that he was being consumed by the symptoms of chronic fatigue.
There is also a temporary security guard at the construction site who is less than 30 years old, named Wen Ye, who has been living in an Internet café for 22 months.
He had tried to find an apartment to live in, but the rent was more than he could afford.
At first, he only spent the night here occasionally, renting only 12 hours a day. But soon he found that his current conditions could only live here for a long time, so he began to cover the month.
He said: "Once you live in, you can't come out again." "The reality is often so harsh that sometimes not everyone has a choice.
Talking about the first night he spent in the Internet café, he still remembers vividly, "That night I was so noisy that I couldn't sleep by the sound of washing dishes next door. ”
In addition to the rent of the Internet café and the need to eat and drink, this expenditure is completely beyond his budget, and it is almost impossible to save money.
There is actually another group of Internet café refugees - female Internet café refugees.
In recent years, the number of refugees in female Internet cafes has increased unabated, and they are younger.
Lisa, 18, whose hometown is in Fukushima, lost her job after a severe earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 and could no longer afford the local housing expenses, and eventually had to live with her mother in an Internet café, and became a "neighbor" in the Internet café cubicle with her mother.
Lisa often worries about her own safety.
"There are all kinds of old men in the Internet café, they often secretly photograph young women, and the red light district outside the Internet café street is extremely insecure for me as a girl, but it is already the best policy to live here."
Regardless of the era, women are always a vulnerable group, because of this characteristic, their life in Internet cafes is much more difficult than that of men.
Internet café refugees most likely do not have the opportunity and power to choose life, in the face of the pressure of the social environment, the embarrassment of employment work, the imbalance in the distribution of social resources, the limitation of personal ability, so it is almost impossible to get ahead of people in the hope of a desperate opportunity.
The 2 square meters of the small grid is their eternal home, and this home can not give these Internet café refugees a sense of happiness, and even sometimes they lose themselves and lose their dignity in this grid-like snail, like the walking dead, without a soul.
Under the collision of reality and ideals, the life direction of Internet café refugees seems so empty.
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Japan's government debt problem is one of the worst in the world, and at the end of last year, Japan's total national debt was close to 1086 trillion yen, or about 10 trillion US dollars, equivalent to about 78600 US dollars per capita debt.
Japan's GDP reached $5 trillion around 1995, and japan's GDP has been almost standing still for more than 20 years, about $4.9 trillion in 2020.
The country's debt has led to the prospects for Japan's national economic development is not so ideal, and the final result is that the civilians pay the bills, and they are dedicating their youth and even their lives to the country's economic construction.
There is no doubt that Japan's economic aggregates are among the highest in the world, but the total economic aggregates cannot measure a country's people's happiness index and fill the gap in national income levels.
The number of suicides in Japan is the highest number worldwide. Because in traditional Japanese culture, suicide is an act of responsibility for failure, a form of apology.
Disappointment in life and work, despair about the future, collapse of faith, etc. will lead the Japanese people to the road of suicide. For example, the Suicide Forest on Mt. Fuji is a good example.
There is pressure to survive in any corner of the world, and Japan is no exception.
In a country with a well-developed economy and good living order, every generation of young people is under tremendous pressure. At night, especially in the early hours of the morning, many people sleep on the streets of Japan.
Among these people sleeping on the streets, we wonder if they are homeless homeless, but the reality is the opposite, they are so well dressed.
It is understood that they are all white-collar or blue-collar workers of the company.
In a fast-paced Japan, these visions have become commonplace. It can be seen that the Japanese Internet café refugees are at least a little happier than these people in terms of survival pressure.
As we all know, Japan is recognized by the world as one of the countries with a beautiful environment, neat and orderly environment, a low crime rate, no immigration problems, a small gap between urban and rural areas, and a good overall attitude towards the service industry.
But this is a country where young people do not see hope for development, and young people have no hope or vision for the development of the country.
Surprisingly, Japan is a country that ranks seniors at work and raises ranks, and increases income by waiting for age and seniority to grow.
And this is a long process, young people will lose their work creativity and vitality here, and it is impossible to imagine how much the system of increasing income by increasing age and seniority will destroy the enthusiasm of young people!
At the same time, ultra-low wage standards cannot allow young people to rent and buy houses to live a normal life.
They have lost themselves in this way of life, can not find the direction of life, and even more give up the opportunity to fight against fate, and choose to adapt to this role.
Perhaps being a refugee in an Internet café is their last dignity. Their feeble cries are a struggle against facts that cannot be changed, but no one can hear them or pay attention.
Some people work hard for a day and are only paid enough to pay for a day's Internet café rent; while some people, in order to provide tuition for their children's college, go out early and stay in the small grid of Internet cafes for several years;
In order to continue to survive, some women have been working in the house for many years to serve their male customers in order to get the help of these successful men, which is also their main source of livelihood.
Due to the unsatisfactory requirements of age, address, and ability, it is difficult for them to find a decent full-time job.
Among these refugees in Internet cafes without stable occupations, only a small and small number of them are actively looking for work, and the rest are no longer willing to find a job.
In capitalist countries, only exploitation remains under capitalist society.
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Japanese Internet café refugees are like rats living underground all year round, they are the people at the bottom, they are all sentient beings under ordinary secular society.
These Internet café refugees have been given a synonym for secularization, and some people regard them as "tramps" and "rat people".
As the rat people of Japan, no one can determine their future, including themselves.
Japan's cultural atmosphere is fundamentally problematic, and we have to admit that its cultural heritage and spiritual category are worthy of affirmation, but Japan's entire cultural system is problematic.
The cultural system is incomplete, incomplete and lacks vitality.
Japanese thought and psychology are too delicate, so they develop a kind of politeness that is too restrictive like pretending to be polite, and pretending to be an effort.
Although the environment of Internet cafes provides transitional survival guarantees for displaced people, it does not provide hope and a future for this category of Internet café refugees.
These so-called "rat people" can only cross themselves, and eventually one day they will eventually be abandoned by Internet cafes and become refugees on the streets, and this result will only require them to work hard to achieve reality.
Internet cafes are a besieged city where the Internet café refugee group escapes social pressure, and they can never go out or go out.
The "rat people" can't see the light, they can only move forward in the night, and once escape becomes a habit, the wrong choice will become the right insistence.
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With the development of the economic era, the number and number of refugees in Japanese Internet cafes will only increase, not decrease. They are the products of the times and the social development, and they are the victims of the accumulation of capital after classization.
Internet café refugees will become a long-standing social phenomenon in Japan, and also represent the opposite of Japan's glamorous society, and are a marginal group in Japanese society.
The result of Japan's stagnation in economic development is that young people have discovered a future in which they can see their heads at a glance, and this future is not yet attractive.
Japanese Internet café refugees will become a social label, will also represent the most authentic appearance of the bottom of Japanese society, and will continue in the form of writing history, and where the Japanese Internet café refugees will go, we have no way of knowing.
Clouds cover the fog and the eyes are full of colors.