High numbers of elderly Japanese women will soon live in poverty, predicts new model
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

Around one in four elderly Japanese women will live below the poverty level in the near future-with the figure rising to 50% for never-married and divorced women. In contrast, only about 10% of Japanese men will become impoverished. This is the prediction of a new model of current Japanese pension system, published today in Frontiers in Physics, that investigates how and why elderly women in the country will enter poverty.