This study looks into how the humanosphere enables avoidance of poverty
and risk, through looking at single mothers regarding (1) their way of
working; (2) their way of obtaining assets; and (3) their way of caring
for children and aging parents. Single mothers have always been the targets
of poverty reduction as a "poor" group in the field of development
economics. Single-mother households in Japan earn about 40% income of other
households, yet this trend of heading toward lower income is not observed
in Southeast Asian nations.
This study takes Okinawa's case, which is both economically and geographically
located between Japan and Southeast Asia and is both socially and culturally
similar in its character to Southeast Asia. Additionally, through this
research, this study will contribute to the understanding of the concept
of "poverty" in the broad sense of the term.
