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This documentary is about how elderly poor people in Japan are stealing for survival. These elderly people stated they are fed & that unlike in public - they are not judged as lesser than but treated more like equals, in prison. Unreported World is from Japan where prisons are becoming retirement homes for a growing number of elderly convicts. Krishnan Guru-Murthy investigates why a geriatric crime wave is gripping the country. As traditional multi-generational families break down, millions of elderly Japanese people are being left in isolation and poverty. With pensions failing to cover the rising cost of living, many are turning to petty theft to survive. As a result, Japan has seen a surge in elderly crime - one in four people arrested here are over 60. Guru-Murthy spends a day on the front line of this social crisis, joining Yu Itoh, a self-styled "G-man”, specialising in catching shoplifters. At a supermarket in Tokyo the store detective explains that up to 70 percent of those he catches are over 65, usually stealing everyday essentials. For some, like 94-year-old Fukuda, the desperation is so great they’ve committed serious crimes just to return to the warmth and security of a cell. But some elderly people are making novel uses of their age, selling their experience to young clients wanting an “instant grandma” to guide them in a modern Japan, where all generations are increasingly living alone. The government is now introducing rehabilitation programmes to give prisoners skills that will help them cope with life on the outside. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Jbk49tCr8 #AsianMastodon #Japan #Elderly #StealingForSurvival #Geriatrics #SocialIssues #ElderlyIsolation

You need to understand our war baby survivor brains better! I am not OK with yellow washing BS! I want the entire truths to be shared with the entire world! Stop believing USA propaganda stories. Listen to people like me, still alive! #AsianMastodon #WarSurvivorsForPeace #TeochewViet #WeAreStillHere

#WorldRefugeesDay We arrived in Canada, as war refugees seeking asylum, in the depths of Winter, 1979. Just most of Dad's side of the family made it to Canada. Mom's villager family was trapped & couldn't get out; they're still in Vietnam. Both my matriarch & patriarch Grandparents were war refugees from the Indochina wartimes - in both Vietnam & China. Our family members had to flee from more than one war & resettle, multiple times over several generations. We know how to survive & rebuild our lives, over & over again. I support all fellow past & present refugees struggles for basic human rights, dignity & creating a good life for themselves/their families. I am against wars & greed-filled inhumanity - like most war refugee survivors. “In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.” ― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees #AsianMastodon #WarDiaspora #refugees #immigrants #GlobalSouth #TootSEA #WarSurvivorsForPeace #SupportRefugees