The award-winning independent documentary film “The Ones Left Behind,” released last year, tells the story of such single mothers in Japan, weaving together interviews with the women and ...

Foreign single mothers in Japan face a web of challenges, with language barriers and visa issues often making it harder for them to escape poverty than their Japanese counterparts. Experts are ...

But for single mothers in Japan, many of whom struggle to make ends meet during the best of times, the current situation is particularly perilous. Over half of single mothers say income has decreased ...

A postwar low of 514,000 marriages were registered in Japan in 2021 ... for women was 93 years and 88 years for men. The number of single-person households is sharply rising because fewer people ...