[masklinn]

> unemployment has been essentially eradicated in Japan

Much of that is the surprising amount of minor busywork the country uses instead of welfare support e.g. multiple people doing circulation around a minor bit of roadwork when other countries would use traffic signs or temporary traffic lights. This is mostly unreliable contract and part-time work.

Japan has fairly high rates of relative and working poverty, with north of 15% living under the poverty line.

[bdowling]

For comparison, in 2010 the U.S. had 15.1% of its population living under the poverty line. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold