Voter interest is high in areas like the economy and living expenses, as poverty becomes a threat that feels more and more ...

Nearly half of single-parent households in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the 2021 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions released by the welfare ministry on July 4. The ...

NHK investigated the cause behind this educational poverty and the hardships it causes. Kosuke is a 19 year old living in eastern Japan. He rarely attended school after the second grade.

If poverty could speak – poverty as Japan today experiences it – it might say something ... my mother and my two younger brothers – are living on benefits for two. It’s a tight squeeze. Mother never ...

“I can’t afford my living expenses and ... critical labor issues in Japan concerning “foreign workers,” “non-regular workers” and “working poor produced by government bodies ...

The package is aimed at easing rising living costs and promoting business innovation and investment.

More than 20% of 65-year-old residents and older will be living in a single-person household in 2050 across Japan — with the exception of Yamagata Prefecture — as a result of rapid ...

OSAKA -- There are some 140,000 students from abroad studying in Japan. But compared to Europe ... financial support including tuition and living expenses for doctoral students in the natural ...

Fashion giant Uniqlo to raise pay by up to 40% Japan's inflation rate hits 41-year high Cost of living: The shock of rising prices in Japan "Producer prices have been rising at a much faster pace ...