One in Six Japanese in Relative Poverty. In July 2014, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare announced the findings of its 2013 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions.

And thus the answer really is terribly simple. Japan is, as Smith notes, becoming a more unequal country. Thus the level of child inequality, of relative poverty, is rising. And that, well, that's it.

The relative child poverty rate topped the national average of 16.1 percent (covering adults as well) for the first time since the government started taking relevant surveys in 1985.

Nearly one in every six Japanese lives in poverty, one of the highest rates among developed countries, according to the latest survey by Japan's welfare ministry. About Careers MedBlog Contact us ...

Pandemic Reveals Hidden Poverty In Wealthy Japan. By Hiroshi HIYAMA Published 01/19/21 AT 1:28 AM EST. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share ...

In Japan's first official calculation of its relative poverty rate, the ministry said 15.7 per cent of Japanese people lived on less than half the median disposable income in 2006.

Real data about poverty in Japan are notoriously difficult to find (it is almost as if the government does not want to talk about it!), and Smith here relies on a useless measure of “relative ...

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Japan's relative poverty rate as of 2007 stood at 15.7 percent, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced last October. This marks the first time the government has officially released ...

Japan's relative poverty rate is one of the highest among the OECD nations. The reason is that our taxation and social security systems are so feeble, making it impossible to rectify female poverty or ...