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 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 ...

as well as Japan’s unknown hidden poverty that has occurred in-spite of the country's rapid economic growth in such a short period of time immediately following World War II. For Japan ...

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 ...

Chart: The Economist Old-age poverty will only get worse. Japan is the world’s oldest society; 30% of the population is over the age of 65. South Korea has half that share. But it is rapidly ...