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.

Okinawa, Japan, is also considered a blue zone, home to some of the world’s longest-living and happiest communities ... reports that 20% of people aged over 65 in Japan live in poverty. Theft is the ...

An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions ...

“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 ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

TOKYO -- Children from financially struggling families are more likely to feel that school is not fun, a survey of some 6,000 parents and children from impoverished households has found.