Volunteers prepare meals at a children’s cafeteria in Kawaguchi, Saitama prefecture, Japan. Photograph: Justin McCurry for the Guardian

Japan’s rising child poverty exposes true cost of two decades of economic decline

Soup kitchens have sprung up to provide meals for some of the estimated 3.5 million children officially living in poverty in one of world’s richest countries The smell of beef stew wafts from a kitchen as a brigade of volunteers put their cooking skills to use on a recent Saturday evening in Tokyo’s commuter belt.

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