Joshua Hunt is an author and journalist from Petersburg, Alaska. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and other publications. Previously a Tokyo-based foreign correspondent for Reuters, he has reported from Japan, China and Hong Kong, India, Tanzania, Kenya, and throughout the Americas.
A 2007 government survey offers a glimpse into the lives of Internet cafe refugees: In Tokyo, 58 percent of them are short-term day laborers, and most of them get just enough part-time work to earn a living.