The end may be near for a row of cardboard dwellings in the underground concourse at Tokyo's JR Shinjuku Station.
On Friday, 35 moved to a shelter provided by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government following a fire a week ago that killed four homeless people living there. Many of those remaining in the concourse have started preparing to voluntarily move.
A total of 135 homeless people were being accommodated at the shelter in Tokyo's Ota Ward as of Friday, with room for 40 more still available, government officials said. The fire forced about 100 of them to evacuate from the concourse, where the local government has put up fences, apparently to prevent them from returning.