Social activist Makoto Yuasa caused a stir by bringing poverty out into the open when he teamed up with unions and nonprofit organizations to open a tent village for jobless people in Tokyo's Hibiya Park over the yearend holidays.
Yuasa, 39, said temporary workers have to keep on living after they've been laid off, after they've been discarded like an old refrigerator or washing machine, but the society doesn't really take this into consideration.
"That's why people were surprised when they saw so many jobless (in the park)," he said.