Giving a hand: People receiving food distributed by non-profit organisation Tenohasi at a park in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo. — AFP
Tokyo: Yuichiro welled up as he collected a food parcel at a Tokyo outreach event offering help to the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic.
“There is no work. Absolutely none, ” said the 46-year-old, until recently a construction worker, while clutching a small plastic bag of essentials on a cold winter street in the capital.
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