A recent survey showed that 44.1 percent of single Japanese women aged 65 and older are living in poverty, much higher than ...

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.

A decade ago, Jun couldn’t have imagined he would one day be surviving on government support. “I had always believed that if you worked hard, you could support yourself and your family,” the ...

TOKYO -- A photo exhibition by Naoko Sakokawa, who documented the "Shinjuku cardboard village" -- a community that welcomed people living rough in the Japanese capital near Shinjuku Station's west ...