Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 photo, men walk in Kamagasaki, Osaka, western Japan. Japan’s biggest slum, Kamagasaki, is visible ...

Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan go missing on purpose to get a second shot at life. The South China Morning Post spoke to two men who have disappeared from their old lives. "I was ...

Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a ...

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