Japan News This Week 2 July 2017

今週の日本

Japan News.
Effects of Takata Bankruptcy to Extend Far and Wide
New York Times

Fukushima nuclear disaster: Tepco executives on trial
BBC

Japan puts off hosting summit with China, S. Korea in late July
The Mainichi

Disabled passenger forced by Japanese airline to crawl up stairs to board plane
Guardian

The Emperor’s Army and Japan’s Discrimination against Okinawa
Japan Focus

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Statistics

Japan's childhood poverty rate is 13.9%, according to 2016 data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

More than half of those children - those 18 or younger - live in a household with just one parent.

That rate is an improvement on the previous year's but remains above the OECD average.

Sources: Asahi Shinbun, June 27, Evening Edition, page 1

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