Homeless population explosion!

[Ganma]

[Coligny]

...maybe.


Releasing 70,000 Psychiatric Patients Shows Japan Debt Task

And suddenly, japanese streets became much scarier...

[Samurai_Jerk]

This sounds like what happened in the US during the Reagan years.

[Mike Oxlong]

the government wants to empty 70,000 beds to reduce the highest rate of psychiatric hospitalization among developed nations, lowering its 1.8 trillion yen ($23.5 billion) annual mental-health payments.

Does Japan also have the highest rate of mental illness among developed nations, or is it just that they hospitalize nearly all cases?

[American Oyaji]

This sounds like what happened in the US during the Reagan years.

OK, I have to plead ignorance here. Please explain.

[Iraira]

OK, I have to plead ignorance here. Please explain.

Reagan, in his desire to reduce the "welfare state" and reduce corporate taxes, cut the budgets for state-run asylums, group homes, and outreach programs for the mentally ill, forcing a great many of the patients out onto the streets.

[Taro Toporific]

OK, I have to plead ignorance here. Please explain.

Homelessness used to be purely economic or substance related, but the dumping of mental patients out onto the streets of the '80s created a whole new fun dimension/demention.

[Catoneinutica]

Homelessness used to be purely economic or substance related, but the dumping of mental patients out onto the streets of the '80s created a whole new fun dimension/demention.

Yeah, if you think Summers are hot here now, imagine how you'll be sweatin' when you have to wear a stab vest under your radiation suit. Japan just keeps getting better and better!

[Doctor Stop]

Releasing 70,000 Psychiatric Patients Shows Japan Debt Task

Great, now Take's going to be posting more often now that he won't need weekend passes to go to the Internet cafe any more.

[Russell]

Yeah, if you think Summers are hot here now, imagine how you'll be sweatin' when you have to wear a stab vest under your radiation suit. Japan just keeps getting better and better!

I think it more likely that the suicide rate will go up drastically. Schizofreniacs seem to have a strong fascination with trains...

[legion]

Homelessness used to be purely economic or substance related, but the dumping of mental patients out onto the streets of the '80s created a whole new fun dimension/demention.

Thatcher followed Ronnie's lead in the UK too, with similar results, increased homelessness and some random violent crime. The problem sorts itself out in a few years, average life span of a homeless person is pretty short.

[Coligny]

Thatcher followed Ronnie's lead in the UK too, with similar results, increased homelessness and some random violent crime. The problem sorts itself out in a few years, average life span of a homeless person is pretty short.

Nah... after they breed into chavs...

[Christoff]

Yeah, if you think Summers are hot here now, imagine how you'll be sweatin' when you have to wear a stab vest under your radiation suit. Japan just keeps getting better and better!

In the 80's you could pack everywhere in America, it was more of a sport really. Ever play duck hunt, like that sans the dog and substitute the deranged for mallards.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 80's and there were plenty of nut houses that closed in Santa Cruz and boy did they flock to the city. I was way easier on the west coast as the weather is way more permitting than say the north east.

[dimwit]

This sounds like what happened in the US during the Reagan years.

It was as much liberals as it was conservatives. I can remember when they emptied the loony asylums in Canada it was done on basis that crazy people have rights to stab people and stuff while not taking medication.

[IparryU]

It was as much liberals as it was conservatives. I can remember when they emptied the loony asylums in Canada it was done on basis that crazy people have rights to stab people and stuff while not taking medication.

O_o

japan will probably go down some other fucked rout... but damn...

[Ganma]

Thatcher followed Ronnie's lead in the UK too, with similar results, increased homelessness and some random violent crime. The problem sorts itself out in a few years, average life span of a homeless person is pretty short.

NZ did the same thing. The local psychiatric hospital became an art school...same building different kind of nuts.

[IparryU]

NZ did the same thing. The local psychiatric hospital became an art school...same building different kind of nuts.

an art school with a museum already intact from all the schitzos drawing on the walls? damn good turn around and they didn't even have to purchase the "art" i becha.

[Ganma]

[Ganma]

And...this is what happens when these people are released on the streets:
[SIZE="4"]Supermarket security guard stabbed to death in Tokyo[/SIZE]

A police spokesman was quoted as saying they were not sure where the suspect lives, and that his speech in unintelligible. Investigators said the suspect will undergo a psychiatric test to determine whether he can be held legally responsible for his crimes.

[matsuki]

A police spokesman was quoted as saying they were not sure where the suspect lives, and that his speech in unintelligible. Investigators said the suspect will [s]undergo a psychiatric test[/s] be checked for citizenship to determine whether he can be held legally responsible for his crimes.

ehehehe

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I've spent shitloads of time working in/with Nagatacho, Kasumigaseki, Kabutocho (in its heyday) and Otemachi and also spent shitloads of time in Japanese mental institutions...IMHO, the greater danger lies not in shutting down the mental institutions...