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Street dweller’s baggage burned = November 5, Taito-ku, Tokyo
On November 5, on the sidewalk next to Ueno Park in Taito-ku, Tokyo, the luggage of a man who lived on the street caught fire. 6. Unemployed Ryuji Kawasaki (28) was arrested, according to an interview with an investigating officer. “There is no doubt that I turned it on with a writer,” he admitted.
According to investigators, there were three consecutive cases of fire damage to toilet paper, etc., from the night of the 4th of last month to the early morning of the 5th of the following month in and around Ueno Park. I’m investigating that Kawasaki was involved.
Under suspicion of arrest, around 1 a.m. on the 5th of last month, on the sidewalk next to Ueno Park, a man (72) who lived on the street burned luggage and standing trees with blankets and underwear, and the nearby Rinnoji temple. It is said that they set fire to the tree across the street.
According to the Tokyo Police Agency and Fire Department, a passerby noticed the man’s luggage was burning and dialed 119, and a hasty fire department stopped him after about 20 minutes. About 2 square meters burned, but the man was in a different location at the time of the fire and visited to collect his luggage on the morning of the 5th to learn of the damage. The site is an area full of cultural facilities such as the Tokyo National Museum, the National Science Museum, and museums.
◆ Frequent injuries, cases of falling asleep
There is no end to the assault and harassment of street dwellers.
A 59-year-old man living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, complains: “It is a daily occurrence that things get destroyed. Some of my friends were kicked while they were sleeping.” A 73-year-old man sleeping in Shinjuku also said: “When I came home from outside, the cardboard house was destroyed. I have not consulted with the police because it is problematic.”
According to a 2014 survey conducted by the NPO “Moyai Independent Living Support Center” (Shinjuku district), etc., of about 350 people in Tokyo, about 40% had been attacked and less than 40% of the perpetrators . They were children and young people.
Recently, a person who was thrown a lit cigarette into a cardboard house or kicked a cardboard drunk said that he had consulted with the corporation.
“Some people do not report harm to the police because they feel like they are in a camp, and they may be the target of harassment before that,” Onishi Ren said. It is said that there is underlying discrimination and prejudice, and the corporation is asking the city to incorporate human rights learning on the subject of street dwellers in Tokyo’s primary and secondary schools. (Keigo Okumura, Yuri Amada)
