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Homeless people find their places to settle for a brief moment during a warm afternoon at a park in downtown Tokyo, Saturday, March 10, 2001. Japan has been stuck in a decade-long economic slowdown as public debt stands at more than 650 trillion yen (dlrs 5.4 trillion) , the worst debt-to-GDP ratio in the industrialized world. Homeless polulation in Tokyo alone raised up to 5,700 in year 2000, 1.7 times more than in the year 1995 , according to a local newspaper. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)