New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2013. This book examines socioeconomic inequalities in Japan, using empirical data in a cross-national comparison with Europe and the United States. The data reveals three key features. First, that Japanese people's perception of inequalities is higher than the perception of people of other nations. Second, that wide gender inequalities exist in the labour market and within the family, and finally, there is a high poverty rate among single-person households.