The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, ...

An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions ...

Okinawa, Japan, is also considered a blue zone, home to some of the world’s longest-living and happiest communities ... reports that 20% of people aged over 65 in Japan live in poverty. Theft is the ...

But in Japan, refugee claimants rarely receive immediate public assistance, such as housing and food. Sarah ended up living in a park ... refugee claimants is very poor compared with those in ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

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