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Syunsuke Fujii, 64, an unemployed carpenter in Kamagasaki, Japan. Kamagasaki, Osaka, used to be a thriving day laborer's town, but today it is home to about 25,000 mainly elderly former day laborers, with an estimated 1,300 who are homeless. There are rarely any work for graying men in construction jobs, instead, alcoholism, poverty, street death, suicide, TB and most of all loneliness prevail here. Without family ties, these men live and die alone as social outcasts from the mainstream "salary man" culture.

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Syunsuke Fujii, 64, an unemployed carpenter in Kamagasaki, Japan. Kamagasaki, Osaka, used to be a thriving day laborer's town, but today it is home to about 25,000 mainly elderly former day laborers, with an estimated 1,300 who are homeless. There are rarely any work for graying men in construction jobs, instead, alcoholism, poverty, street death, suicide, TB and most of all loneliness prevail here. Without family ties, these men live and die alone as social outcasts from the mainstream "salary man" culture.