Poverty in Tokyo
Tokyo only touches on poverty in the city. Though Tokyo is often thought of as a fast-paced, glamorous metropolitan city, the reality is that many residents/citizens living in Tokyo are facing crippling levels of poverty. Poverty first began to gain recognition as an issue in Tokyo after the 2008 global financial crisis. More than 20 percent of the children in Tokyo live in what the government has defined as an impoverished household, and 10% of households in Tokyo are not able to adequately feed themselves because of the level of poverty in which they are living. The economic system in Tokyo puts divorced single mothers at an especially high disadvantage, because many Japanese companies only hire recent college graduates. The three primary groups that receive welfare payment in Tokyo are: the elderly, single mothers and the handicapped.
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