Question:
How is it different from US or Canada. Is there something like welfare or a food bank and stuff like that?
Answer:
We have "public assistance system".
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/policy/car…
In fact, this will give you about 130,000 yen a month. And health care cost will be free. More and more people say this is "too much" because some workers earn less than this.
There are about 2M recipients in Japan now. But it's not easy to be a recipient. It's extremely unlikely unless you are old and do not have any relatives.
So young jobless people still live with their parents who have a job or receiving pension, and supported by parents. There is concern that when their parents die, there will be a new generation of poor people in Japan.
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