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 ...

The relative poverty rate ... According to the welfare ministry’s 2021 survey, Japan’s poverty rate stands at 15.4 percent, with the rate for children at 11.5 percent. Other data released ...

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 ...

relative poverty among children in Japan, and the murder of two Japanese nationals by ISIS. Teppei studied at Waseda University and University of California Berkeley, and is fluent in Japanese and ...

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 ...

It is a moral and ethical obligation and materially feasible task, although relative poverty and variations ... and aquaculture); Japan launched the “Strategy for Sustainable Food Systems ...