Day 1,584: environs, sufferance, asylum-seeker, demolition

Warabi and its environs illustrate the trend.

Yet many are in Japan illegally or on sufferance, as longtime asylum-seekers without work permits.

They have also helped create a hub for demolition firms.

Meet the Japanese Kurds

Artwork of the day 
Demolition
Alekos Kontopoulos
Date: 1969
Style: Social Realism,Surrealism
Genre: cityscape

Word of the day 
environs: the area surrounding a place, especially a town
sufferance: unwillingness 
asylum-seeker: someone who leaves their own country, often for political reasons or because of war, and who travels to another country hoping that the government will protect them and allow them to live there
demolition: the act of destroying something such as a building

Quote of the day
“At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.”
― Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method