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

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 like this ... my mother and my two younger brothers – are living on benefits for two. It’s a tight squeeze.

Approximately one in seven, or 13.5 percent, of all children in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions released last month by the ...

“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 ...