"Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society," Mr Kishida told lawmakers. "Focusing attention on policies regarding children and child-rearing is an issue ...

Japan has drawn up a draft plan designed to reverse the country's falling birthrate, which includes boosting financial support for child-rearing households. The government presented the package of ...

Each fall, Dr. Emi Furukawa, Group Leader of OIST's Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit and Children's Research Center, ...

Japan's Diet on Wednesday passed a bill to revise laws on child-rearing support. Upper House lawmakers passed revised legislation to support child-rearing on Wednesday. The revisions are aimed at ...

The trend reflects the fact that women in this age group tend to be busy with child rearing or work, according to the Japan ...

The revised law to support child care and child rearing was passed and enacted by a majority vote of the ruling parties at an Upper House plenary session. One of the funding sources for the new ...

Sleep duration in Japan is said to be one of the shortest in the world, and a majority in the country are unsatisfied with ...

The move is part of broader efforts to boost Japan's declining birth rate ... stages in their lives -- from the initial ...

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- For a group of Japanese researchers, the phenomenon of humor is no laughing matter. For three decades, the ...

Ever since the arrival of her daughter six years ago, the precious little being has become the centre of Ms Park Eun-jeong’s ...

As millennials enter a new phase of life, many are in search of affordable, right-sized housing. In the process, they are ...

The ‘youthquake’ of Africa will look like this, the UN projects. The continent’s 54 countries are expected to host 2.9 ...