Word: ueno
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Tokyo, where beggary had once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park. Some were children who lived by begging and stealing, spending the nights under piled debris. In a nation of fanatic workers, there would soon be 2,500,000 unemployed veterans of the home army alone. The figure would grow as soldiers were shipped home from overseas...