Japan: Toyoko Kids | ARTE.tv Documentary

They are children who have fallen through the cracks of society, outcasts who have run away or been thrown out of their homes. Known as ‘Toyoko kids’, they hang out in the most infamous neighbourhood in Tokyo. This episode of ARTE Reportage went to meet them.

Japan: Toyoko Kids | ARTE.tv Documentary
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42 Comments

  1. Arte does "documentary" like that about Tokyo kids, while ignoring all the arabs/african thug kids that destroy France and Britain xD
    These ppl are so biased.

  2. There has never been a time when life was easier for people. No one has resilience any more, times were much harder to an unimaginable degree compared to today. People coped and got on with things. Working extremely hard jobs, miners, chimney sweeps, factory work with o health and safety, office hours and long daily travel…. drives to work that are 2-3 hours long. All just accepted as that's what you have to do. The comfort that people have today is making the younger generations unable to cope with anything.
    Violence in the home was far higher and far worse always before.
    This is not a justification but a comparison.

    People and communities were destroyed in England when they stopped mining coal…. days Inna dark tunnel with no light were celebrated as the heart of a community… men broke when the mines were closed down.
    In Japan long work hours and a job for life were held as the highest standard of expectations, an economy that was crippled after the war and rebuilt itself to become the greatest economy and manufacturer of the modern age.

    60 years ago many houses in the UK still had outside toilets, no central heating and single glazed windows, a famous historian recalled his father having all his teeth removed without anesthetic…. that's this century. Before that there were no anaesthetics bar chloroform, or alcohol… this was fairly recent in China, where they would use acupuncture to try to suppress pain for surgery… it didn't work…. but that's what they did…. even into the 80s.

  3. Japan ist kein besonders tolles Land. In puncto Menschenrechte wirkt es überhaupt nicht wie ein entwickeltes Land.

  4. Ehrlich gesagt finde ich den Kommentarbereich peinlich wenn es immer um Japan geht.

    Immer dieselbe leier ohne dass das eigentliche problem je gelöst wird.

    Was ist mit den Ara-Ara Muttis, die auch immer nie in handschellen in den japanischen schlagzeilen landen, obwohl sie sich auf minderjährige Jungs einlassen?

    Es gibt auch minderjähriger Toyoko jungs die am ende Geld für ältere Frauen verdienen oder, unabhängig vom Geschlecht tatsächlich als komplizen abgestempelt werden.

    Arte lernt einfach nicht dazu dinge richtig einzuordnen bevor sie mit "… , Japan“ or exotisch anfangen oder?

    Und das etwas passiert auch bei euch zu hause

    Ihr seid alle einfach nur scharf auf das thumbnail schnell zu klicken

  5. It's a very developed country, but inhumane. That's why there are so many mental illnesses and so many shortened lives. From one generation to the next, the same thing. It all starts in the family. I just recently heard from a native: parents don't show love to their children. This is passed on and it's a very serious thing.

  6. Wow this video is like a honey pot for predators. If I was a predator, i'd know my next destination after seeing this video.

  7. Is that guy hanging With the face maker girl how old is he if he's drinking. She's 14. There holding hands in video. Kinda suspicious. Damn scary if that was my daughters.

  8. man watching this documentary just makes me reflect on my own life and how becasue i was able to get help when i was around their age i was able to survive and ACTUALLY live because there not living. this is not a life this.. this is just despair

  9. They should stop getting surgery in their faces. Who remember Korean and Japanese women in the 90s? They were ugly sorry…but came surgery now they all got doll faces then they wonder why the kids come out ugly😂

  10. Looks like trying to be young fake weird adult males hanging around them. Living an unreal world. Those girls trying to look like a anime cartoon. Yes they need love, compassion and a home.

  11. I grew up with a very similar, but slightly less extreme, situation and kind of small community of ''outcasts''. I can completely see where these kids are coming from but it's super sad how easily their parents seem to just give up or genuinely don't care. I hope just like the lady from the organisation/restaurant, there's more people or independent collectives or something who can help even a little bit. The gov-system is also understandably too restrictive for them… there needs to be an alternative somehow. I am still processing this with very mixed feelings as I knew that jirai-kei emerged from these girls but never fully grasped how bad the situation was. I am ''glad'' to learn about them more directly through this doc but also sad at the same time.

  12. I really want to know what the background music is and where I can listen to it.. if anyone know it tell me please!

  13. I'm so glad that young couple has each other. They're able to be vulnerable and honest with their feelings in a way that far too many adults are unable to be, and I think that's granted them real maturity. When ラムさん spoke, I never got the sense that he was just repeating platitudes he'd heard from others; it felt like he developed these world views through his own experiences, making those lessons all the more valuable to him. If he was my son, I would be incredibly grateful and proud of him.

  14. When a “man” comes up to an obviously vulnerable 12 year old girl and tells her “I will give you money if you sleep with me” – that’s when you know humanity has reached its lowest of the low.

    When I was 15 and run away from home for just a single day, I also had this kind of men approach me a few times, and that wasn’t even in Japan nor in some sort of local shady area. I wasn’t even wasted, I was merely very sleepy because I had to spend the night outside, awake entire time as it was too cold to fall asleep. So when sun finally came out and started shining on me, the warmth made all the tiredness kick in, I was struggling to keep my eyes open – and that’s when older men started coming up to me. I reject one, another show up soon after. Meanwhile nobody else was interested in whether I was okay or willing to offer goodwill. It’s only the perverse men that take any notice of someone they can take advantage of.

    This happens all over the world, often in plain sight. And girls that end up being taken advantage of are not going to be comforted by their mothers afterwards. They will be blamed for it, and the men will be almost irrelevant part of the story.

    Humanity can be despicable and it makes me sick.

  15. こういう頭のおかしい日本人は、東京と大阪に100人くらいしかいないので、みなさん勘違いしないようにお願いします。

  16. My mom once told me, “you’re good for nothing”. And that broke me. These kids were getting told that probably every day. I can’t imagine how much it hurt and still hurts them. I hope one day they find the love that they’ve been searching for. God bless them ❤