Japanese homeless man's bed carefully folded for the day in Osaka, Kamagasaki, Japan. Kamagasaki is home to an aging population of day laborers and homeless men who came looking for construction jobs and a new identity during Japan's economic boom. Today, Kamagasaki is home to remnants of that era. With few jobs left, many take to peddling, gambling, or just waiting. Osaka residents shun the area or deny that it exists. As forlorn as Kamagasaki might seem, it is quintessentially Japanese. Men living in cardboard boxes arrange their shoes as if at a fine inn. Every evening they head to the public bathhouse. Though outcasts, these men project the core values and vitality of a polite, respectful, highly organized Japanese society.
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