Approximately one in seven, or 13.5 percent, of all children in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions released last month by the ...

NHK investigated the cause behind this educational poverty and the hardships it causes. Kosuke is a 19 year old living in eastern Japan. He rarely attended school after the second grade.

Authorities aim to 'gentrify' Kamagasaki, once Japan's largest day laborer district, by displacing the many homeless who have ...

Nearly half of single-parent households in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the 2021 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions released by the welfare ministry on July 4.

In fact, in a recent survey conducted in 2012, 92.3% of Japanese respondents classified themselves as such. There is a lack of awareness of income inequality and poverty in the society. In another ...

The Japanese government decided last week to offer some funding for groups that support women in poverty, including an allocation to buy and distribute sanitary products. At a local level ...

With a weakening currency and rising poverty, Japan's capital Tokyo has become the new hub for “sex tourism”, reported The Star. Secretary general of the Liaison Council Protecting Youths ...

Experts are urging the government to create a safer environment where these women can continue living in Japan without fear.

A senior Japanese finance ministry official speaking ... meetings further underscores the diminishing commitment to global poverty reduction at a time when it's needed most," said Dirk Willem ...