The goals are as ambitious as they are ill defined. In Japan, the government has portrayed both its poverty alleviation efforts and its highly contentious whaling program as examples of its ...

Japan’s unemployment rate remains relatively low compared to other OECD countries. However, Japan’s poverty rate among the working-age population is one of the higher ones among OECD countries. The ...

Japan’s overall child poverty rate is above the OECD average, and nearly half of the 1.4 million single-parent households live below the poverty line despite around 85 percent of such parents ...

The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. In Japan, this legacy is most ...

The project was funded by loans from Japan Bank for International Cooperation ... according to the Guizhou Poverty Alleviation Office. It is the biggest ever foreign-funded poverty relief project ...