Old age far from gentle for Japan's graying homeless

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Old age far from gentle for Japan's graying homeless

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/old-age-far-gentle-japans-greying-homeless-044416458.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/x.wOPkA4BNWbAW_w0Xou6Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-01T044416Z_1_CBRE9200D5W00_RTROPTP_2_JAPAN-HOMELESS-AGEING.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Homeless person lies on a street as a passerby walks past in Tokyo" align="left" title="Homeless person lies on a street as a passerby walks past in Tokyo" border="0" /></a>TOKYO (Reuters) - Kyoko Machiya should be enjoying life with grandchildren. Instead, the 64-year-old's home is a makeshift structure of boxes covered with blue plastic in a Tokyo park. Homelessness in Japan is a decades-old issue, yet it has a worrying new twist. A vast majority of the homeless are now aging, a reflection of the overall graying of Japanese society that poses new problems for policy makers. Machiya, a tiny woman with weathered skin and graying hair, tried a shelter once but eventually moved out. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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