An estimated 10,000 people are homeless in the streets of Tokyo. In January 1996, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government forcibly evicted 200 of the 400 people who live in Shinjuku Station. 1000 police officers cleared a staged sit-in, which by 6.50am was ready for the 1.3 billion yen moving walkway that was to be built there.

Enforced evictions of countless homeless continue throughout Tokyo. Their struggles have been documented in a startling online exhibition, The Shinjuku Street Project. It is a moving record of lives, Tokyo's shifting ghettos, which appear to have become transparent in the eyes of a dominating and hostile city. A few moments with these images and the screen can become a sacred space.

www.japan.co.jp/~homeless/

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