NHK investigated the cause behind this educational poverty and the hardships it causes. Kosuke is a 19 year old living in eastern Japan ... and 40 percent responded. The results show that 597 ...

The ministry releases the relative poverty rate for children--the percentage of those under 18 living in households that earn less than half the median income--every three years. Japan’s rate is ...

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 ...