Inequality has become a central policy issue around the world. We study trends of inequality in earnings, income and wealth across households in Japan, using the National Survey of Family Income and ...

The mass media repeatedly reported that Japan's income inequality was widening partly because of an increase in irregular workers. Such reports seem to have been adopted as fact by most Japanese ...

Japan’s income inequality hit its second-worst level on record, according to a labor ministry survey conducted in 2021. The Gini coefficient--an index that measures income inequality on a ...

Poverty Research in Japan (in ... Transfer of Inequality in Japan, Inequalization Trend and Policy Options in Japan (with Urakawa, K.), Tokyo: Economic and Social Research Institute, pp.4-36 (2007) ...

Even in Japan, a country where most people regard themselves as middle-class the inequality gap is growing. A survey by Mizuho Research & Technologies shows that households with an annual income ...

Addressing that divide has become a high priority for new prime minister Fumio Kishida, who promised to tackle income ... gauges inequality. The situation did improve for some in Japan.

In Western English-speaking countries, inequality declined until about 1980 and then began to grow again. Continental European countries and Japan had a decline until about 1950; since then income ...