What's up with Japan's education gap?
Did you know?: “High school is not compulsory in Japan, and even public high schools require tuition fees.…
Single-mother households badly hit by slump
Keiji Hirano reports that the economic slump has severely hit single-mother households because many of these women…
Commentary: What Barack Obama means to me
When President-elect Barack Obama and his family move into the White House, it will signify moving into every…
1 in 7 Japanese kids live in poverty
According to statistics released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, one out of every seven Japanese…