AKASHI, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised "new dimension" measures to address an existential crisis: his country's plunging birth rate. Fewer than 800,000 babies were born in ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled "unprecedented'' spending plans on Monday designed to tackle the country's plunging birthrate and guarantee its national security. In a ...

KAWACHINAGANO, Japan — On the top floor of a mall in south-central Japan, there exists a child care center modeled after a small American city: Carmel, Indiana. Scattered throughout the room were ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Japan's biggest opposition party is set to propose the government taps dividend income from exchange-traded funds (ETF) owned by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to help fund a ...

NAGI, Japan — For decades, this lush mountain town’s specialty was growing rice, black soybeans and satoimo, a taro root that features widely in Japanese cuisine and serves as the town’s official ...

The government agency overseeing child policies on Thursday announced a new certification mark for entities taking part in a "Japanese DBS" program to check the sexual offense histories of people ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers common reader questions about Japan's system for verifying whether people seeking or working in ...

TOKYO, June 8 (Reuters) - Japan aims to reform labour law, easing the way for couples to work and share household chores, in a bid to avert an expected sharp fall in the number of its young people by ...