Efforts to tackle homelessness in the Japanese city of Osaka are having ... designed to help as a step out of poverty. For around 100 dollars a month, residents get a 50-square-meter apartment.

One day while walking around Shinjuku, a major hub for government and business in Tokyo, Japan, I noticed a shelter built by a homeless man. It looked semi-permanent, but more importantly ...

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 ...

Homeless people who refused to leave ... Kamagasaki is the visible tip of an iceberg of poverty – often overlooked in Japan – reflecting social inequalities in the world's third-largest ...