Kamagasaki, also called as the Airin district, is located in the northeastern part of Nishinari Ward in Osaka City and is known as a "day laborer's town" and a "welfare town".Many people may recognize Kamagasaki as a dangerous town, having experienced repeated riots since its high economic growth period.

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　The reason why the poor flocked to Kamagasaki was because of the forced eviction of Nago-cho (now the Nihonbashi area), once said to be the biggest slum in Japan.In Kamagasaki, a "wood-renting inn" was built to house the people who had been forcibly relocated, where guests cooked for themselves.Later, most of it was burned down in an air raid, but it made a fresh start as a boarding house inn, and by the 1950s it had become one of the leading "Doya towns".At the time, half of the residents were based in temporary lodgings and apartments, of which 40% were mobile workers without regular jobs and 20% were unemployed.The number of out-of-school children and long-term absentees is high, and crime by gangsters, prostitution, drug trafficking, and stolen goods trafficking have also become prominent.

　Some people may think that Kamagasaki has a strong image of riots, but the reason behind this is the fact that no public employment agencies intervened, and the dissatisfaction of day laborers who were being exploited by vicious arrangers and gangsters was expressed in the form of riots.

　The government then set up a number of facilities to publicly support employment, changing the name of the area from Kamagasaki to Airin , and establishing the Airin General Center, which has three functions: medical care, housing, and labor.

　Isn't it strange that the image of the Airin area as a "city of poverty" still lingers today when you look at the response of the administration?

　Before the bursting of the bubble, the day labor market was able to provide job opportunities for those who were struggling to make ends meet.However, after the bursting of the bubble economy, such a function could not be expected, and the cost of support and countermeasures only weighed heavily on the administration.

　In addition, the lack of control over the private outreach efforts that were actively deployed at this time also contributed to the complexity of the safety net supporting the poor.Because of the existence of a diverse safety net, people in need were concentrated in the Ailin area, which led to a regional acceleration of poverty.

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　Even now, in addition to the aging of the day laborers, there is a growing influx of needy people from other areas, and many of these people are suffering from social isolation.There is a tacit understanding that strangers may converse with each other on the street or drink together in close friendship, but they do not interfere with each other's privacy, deepening the social isolation.