SocraticGadfly: Poverty hits Japan Inc

April 22, 2010

Poverty hits Japan Inc

The Japanese government has, for the first time ever, announced an official poverty line for the country, and nearly one in six are below it. And, the overall poverty rate is close to the U.S.

I had no idea it was like this. I had heard that, due to elder poverty, Japan had more senior citizen criminals, from theft, than juvenile ones.

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