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OSAKA—An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting angry cries of protests and desperate expressions of helplessness.

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(The Mainichi) The Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai construction site is seen ... on a balcony and causing his death from hypothermia in the town of Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture, in February 2022.