What will you do if, somehow, be it by accident or be it intentional, you get stuck in Japan for a whole night, with no place to go, no hotel available and just a few bucks in yourr pocket? Simple: Internet Cafes! Manga Cafes! There’s so many of them that even Einstein would lose count.

Basically, in places like this you get a nice and comfy room all for yourself, a computer with an internet connection, and tons of manga to browse and enjoy. Some even have anime porn, manga porn, loli porn and the likes; some will let you smoke your lungs out, some will not. All in all, for a certain sum of gold per hour, you can spend some quality time enjoying a good wank and have a bottle of sake (or whatever booze you desire) to get wasted. I wish we had this kind of places in my country, but it’s not even remotely possible.

Well, it seems that Internet Cafes in Japan are also used by thousands of people on daily basis (or should I say, nightly basis), for other than jerking off some sticky manga - a government survey has found out that homeless people, around 5,400 of them, like to crash here for the night. Half of them are unemployed, while the rest are daily laborers, or are having temporary jobs.

And for the sake of statistics, about 2,700 of these gentlemen are working hard to earn some spendola. 1,300 seem to be looking for a job, while 900 are fine the way they are. The last lucky 300 are company employees, but still, homeless as a homeless can be. Young or old, gay or straight, these fellow Japanese are spending night after night, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO, in places that I, myself, WOULD DONATE A FUCKING KIDNEY to visit just once. Oh, the irony.

I want to be employed and homeless in Japan too, kkthx. A CryoCopy of the Mainichi article, which, as usual, will disappear in a few days, can be found here.