The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, ...

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.

But in Japan, refugee claimants rarely receive immediate public assistance, such as housing and food. Sarah ended up living in a park ... refugee claimants is very poor compared with those in ...

Reflecting on her crime and what made her do so, Akiyo said, "I made a poor decision and shoplifted ... Considering the ...

YOKOHAMA -- Some 10% of families with second-year junior high school students in east Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture are in poverty, living on less than half of the median income, according to a ...

TOKYO : Weeks after Japan revealed details of a landmark energy ... rethink of AI energy needs that the world's most resource-poor major economy would be remiss to ignore, analysts say.