Google is your friend. And there are plenty of Japanese news papers with English editions so you have no excuse. The author is stupid because he considers as

Google is your friend. And there are plenty of Japanese news papers with English editions so you have no excuse. The author is stupid because he considers as "minor" what is the major cause of poverty in Japan: low wages and no social coverage whatsoever directly caused by Koizumi's lift on irregular jobs contracts, and a huge increase in such low paid jobs as a replacement for a normally paid and work force (I wrote 40%, that's the current figure). The author is also stupid because he equates poverty to delinquency, but he does not check simple facts like: suicide rate, domestic violence, child abuse, sexual abuse and other social issues. Here again the rates have been on the increase for the last 2 decades. And I've been in Japan for close to 20 years, I have three kids here and I happen to read the news in Japanese because I'm a translator. The author does not know anything about Japan and had no idea what he is writing about.