$12-20 will buy you a night’s sleep in a cyber cafe cubicle. It includes free soft drinks, TV, comics and Internet access. It is cheaper than a hotel or rental apartment. These cyber homes are popular with Japanese students and freeters (part times workers and odd job working poor). The concept is sure to spread.
With rising housing costs, the internet cafe provides a novel alternative to homelessness.
I hope the situation in Japan will improve. The new Japanese generation doesn’t have any money, and many young people don’t have any motivation. I don’t have money, but I have a dream, says Tokyoite Yamashita, sitting in a cubicle with a PC and a stack of comic books.
If they open in the United States, you’ll know where to find the start-up entrepreneurs. Starbucks Sleepovers?
Source: Reuters.
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