(英会話リスニングスクリプト)
My name is Yukio Tanaka and I'm 55 years
old.
I live near Umeda Station in Osaka.
In winter I sleep in different places -
I find a place out of the wind, then make a little shelter
out of cardboard boxes and go to sleep.
People think that I'm lazy but that isn't
true; I think that I'm just unlucky.
I grew up in a small town in Kyushu and
moved to Osaka 20 years ago - it was easy to find a job
and make money then.
I didn't have any special training but I
found a job in an electronics company, working in a factory
making radios.
I never married and I rented a room not
far from where I worked.
Anyway, the economic slowdown came, the
factory closed and 200 of us lost our jobs.
At first I thought that it would be easy
to find a job, but I soon found that things weren't so easy
anymore.
I didn't have much money in the bank and
soon I couldn't pay the rent and had to move into a hostel.
To save money, a few of us started sleeping
on the sidewalk in summer and now we sleep outside all the
time.
People say that soon there will be a lot
more people like me living on the streets.
|