Magazine helping to deal with the big issue of homelessness in Japan

Teruo Irishima, a homeless man from Nara Prefecture, earns a living by selling "The Big Issue Japan," a magazine published to give people in situations just like his a leg-up in life.Irishima, 56, started working selling the magazine around 10 years ago. With no fixed address, he currently spends his nights at his preferred internet cafe, using the money he makes from sales for his necessities, including food and access to the cafe that gives him a dry, warm and relatively safe place to sleep.His lodgings aside, his life is not so different to that of any other Japanese worker.He starts his…READ FULL ARTICLE