It is still new to our memories that the time when the U.S. dollar and the Japanese Yen exchange rate was reversed. The reasons that cause the reverse of currency exchange rate could be the U.S. government’s poor economic handling, high rate of bankruptcies, auto industries’ business were failing, and surprise attacks of subprime-loans against mainly poor/working class single mothers in the United States. These were the starting points of economic crisis, but very few were concerned with the potential damages to the Japanese economy. As a result of global economic crisis, Japanese industries that mainly rely on exporting goods such as auto industries such as Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, and Honda, and household appliance industries including Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic, and Toshiba dismissed many temporary workers from their facilities. Huge dismissals caused many who were fired to lose their place to live and sleep, money to buy food and tickets to go back their parents’ homes. Those people ended up with being homeless and the numbers of those homeless people enormously increased in big cities such as Tokyo. The overflow of dismissed people became one of the biggest issues in Japan, and they needed help. This event happened in Japan clearly showed the social injustice in a different manner from ones in the U.S. because some issues in the U.S. are race related. However, unlike to the U.S. has variety of race representatives, 99.8% of population in Japan is Japanese. This event was the issue of class, meritocracy, and moral liability regardless of race. The month long event happened during the middle of December 2008 to the middle of January 2009 depicted cruel reality of gaps in pay in Japan.
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