Pauvreté à Osaka

Voici un extrait de l’article de Philip Brasor, Welfare system not faring well, Japan Times 25/9/2011:

The number of welfare recipients nationwide is over 2 million, the highest it's been since the system was launched in 1950, after which it continued to drop steadily until bottoming out in 1996. Central and local governments now give out ¥3.4 trillion in welfare benefits a year, equal to 10 percent of all tax revenues.

The local government with the heaviest burden is Osaka, where 17 percent of the city budget goes to welfare payments.