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As a result of insurance payments for treatment being lowered for long-term hospital treatment, people who have left the hospital have been staying at these facilities, and there has been a spike in r

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A representative for an NPO managing free or low-cost lodging. NPOs say more than 150 people a year are dying at free or low-cost lodging facilities in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, meant as temporary living quarters for the poor. (Mainichi Shimbun)

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This is very sad.

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