In Japan, relative poverty is defined as a state at which the income of a household is at or below half of the median household income. According to OECD...

In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. In 2020, there were 37.2 million people in poverty. Some of the many causes include...

Poverty in India remains a major challenge despite overall reductions in the last several decades as its economy grows. According to an International Monetary...

Internet access. Kamagasaki Poverty in Japan Deinstitutionalisation Tokyo Godfathers - an animated film about three homeless people in Tokyo 2011 Tōhoku earthquake...

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea...

The causes of poverty may vary with respect to nation, region, and in comparison with other countries at the global level. Yet, there is a commonality...

Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift...

unemployment, and poverty. In Japan it was here that municipal government first introduced a comprehensive system of poverty relief, copied in part from British...

countries by percentage of population living in poverty, as recorded by the World Bank and Our World in Data. "Poverty" is defined as an economic condition by...

coin-locker babies (Japanese: コインロッカーベイビー, romanized: koinrokkābeibī, lit. 'coin locker baby') are victims of child abuse often occurring in Japan, in which infants...