Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1948 — Page 28
* 3 Thousands Sleepi Federal Buildings | By KEYES BEECH TOKYO, Japan, June 18—More
than 5,000,000 Japanese are still Homeless today, almost three
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‘dwellings go up at the rate of 140,000 a month, nearly 50 per cent of ‘them burn down almost as soon as they're up. | Because of storm, flood and | earthquake, not to mention rock-| eting birth rates, Japan has al- | ways been short ‘about 200,000 | family units. | | When the war started the | shortage amounted to 1,180,000, 'that figure was upped by 2,000,'000 through B-20 bombings and another 550,000 through fire
It costs about 80,000 yen ($400 at the current military exchange rate), to build & small wooden,
{350 yen ($1.75 a month), an amount which consumes 23 per cent of the budget for a family! of five. Sleep in Federal Building Three years ago the same house could have been built for 10,000 yen and rented for about 125 yen a month. Right now, as a result of the
sands of government workers are | eating as well as sleeping in gov-| ernment buildings. | The Japanese taxpayers didn’t {mind at first. After all, these government - building residents
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