The poverty rate among Japanese children slightly improved in 2015 thanks in part to the country’s better job market but one in every seven children remains poor, a survey by the welfare ministry showed Tuesday.
The poverty rate among Japanese children slightly improved in 2015 thanks in part to the country’s better job market but one in every seven children remains poor, a survey by the welfare ministry showed Tuesday.
The national livelihood survey showed 13.9 percent of children under 18 in Japan were in households living on less than half the national median household disposal income, down 2.4 percentage points from the previous survey for 2012, when the rate was the worst on record, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said. A ministry official attributed the first improvement in 12 years to „better job market conditions, which pushed up income of households raising children.
