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.

The magazine, usually sold exclusively on the street, benefits homeless people who use their earnings from selling it to help them get back on their feet. The Japanese version of the eponymous ...

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.

Japan's "employment ice age generation," now in their 40s to 50s, faces an increasing risk of being in poverty when they are older even if they fully receive basic pension benefits. Due to low ...

From camping out in the Park, to capsule hotels and cyber cafes, we dive into the weird and wonderful world of the homeless in Japan. Their cardboard houses may be painted in technicolor ...