{"id":17819,"date":"2014-05-19T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=17819"},"modified":"2014-05-19T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:14:39","slug":"now-playing-on-mediastorm-japans-disposable-workers-for-pulitzer-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/now-playing-on-mediastorm-japans-disposable-workers-for-pulitzer-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Playing on MediaStorm: Japan’s Disposable Workers for Pulitzer Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We are pleased to present Japan\u2019s Disposable Workers<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>a film series produced in collaboration\u00a0the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting<\/a>. Based on\u00a0Shiho Fukada<\/a>\u2019s portrait series<\/a>, the film explores the labor issues affecting Japan in three sections, to illustrate the larger global labor crisis at work.\u00a0
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Overworked to Suicide<\/h2>\n

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\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

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Net Cafe Refugees<\/h2>\n

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\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

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Dumping Ground<\/h2>\n

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\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

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We are pleased to present Japan\u2019s Disposable Workers,\u00a0a film series produced in collaboration\u00a0the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Based on\u00a0Shiho Fukada\u2019s portrait series, the film explores the labor issues affecting Japan in three sections, to illustrate the larger global labor crisis at work.\u00a0 Overworked to Suicide After the recession of the 1990s, Japan\u2019s white collar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":17821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1557,1559,1555,1556],"class_list":["post-17819","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","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819","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=17819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}