{"id":16096,"date":"2013-09-11T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2013-09-11T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:26:59","slug":"pulitzer-center-and-mediastorm-present-japans-disposable-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/11\/pulitzer-center-and-mediastorm-present-japans-disposable-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Center and MediaStorm Present \u201cJapan\u2019s Disposable Workers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- MediaStorm Player Embed Code --><script type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"mediastorm-player-e523095b998c98326100\" src=\"https:\/\/player.mediastorm.com\/players\/embed?id=e523095b998c98326100&#038;w=512&#038;h=395&#038;lang=none\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting<\/a>, MediaStorm created a documentary based on <a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/contributor\/shiho-fukada\/604\" target=\"_blank\">Shiho Fukada<\/a>\u2019s portrait series, <a href=\"http:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/projects\/japan-disposable-workers-labor-unemployment-crisis-economy\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Japan\u2019s Disposable Workers<\/em><\/a>. In three sections the film explores the labor issues affecting Japan, and in so doing, illustrates the larger global labor crisis:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Overworked to Suicide<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter the recession of the 1990s, Japan\u2019s white collar salarymen increasingly must work arduous hours for fear of losing their jobs. Working essentially two shifts a day for weeks at a time leads frequently to feelings of depression, something that is still stigmatized in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Net Cafe Refugees<\/strong><br \/>\nInternet cafes have existed in Japan for over a decade, but in the mid 2000s, customers began using these spaces as living quarters. Internet cafe refugees are mostly temporary employees, their salary too low to rent their own apartments. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dumping Ground<\/strong><br \/>\nKamagasaki, Osaka, Japan used to be a thriving day laborer\u2019s town. Today, it is home to approximately 25,000 unemployed and elderly men, many of whom are also homeless. <\/p>\n<p>The films will screen in Washington, DC on Friday, September 20th, 2013 and Tuesday, September 24th at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/events\/pulitzer-center-film-festival-abominable-crime-homophobia-jamaica-women-pakistan-civilian-casualities-sri-lanka-rape-congo-photography\" target=\"_blank\">Pulitzer Center Film Festival<\/a> &#8211; a week-long celebration of reporting from around the world. The full-length feature will premiere on <a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MediaStorm<\/a> this fall. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mediastorm-newsletter-subscribe-widget\" data-header=\"Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when this film is released\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, MediaStorm created a documentary based on Shiho Fukada\u2019s portrait series, Japan\u2019s Disposable Workers. In three sections the film explores the labor issues affecting Japan, and in so doing, illustrates the larger global labor crisis: Overworked to Suicide After the recession of the 1990s, Japan\u2019s white collar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1557,1559,1555,1556,1558],"class_list":["post-16096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mediastorm-announcements","category-mediastorm-projects","tag-japans-disposable-workers","tag-labor","tag-pulitzer-center","tag-shiho-fukada","tag-unemployment","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}