To support struggling families and encourage population growth, free school lunch programs have risen dramatically across Japan ... programs as part of child-rearing support initiatives.

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

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

Expanding the child allowance Open Close Based on the idea of the child allowance as a basic kind of financial assistance supporting the rearing of all children, who hold the next generation’s future ...

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

A survey showed that South Korea had the second-highest rate of sexless marriages among the countries surveyed. Read more at ...

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

The Japan Committee for UNICEF announced the passing ... but also at home and in child-rearing, and Akamatsu listened with interest. The law passed and society slowly began to change.

The Chinese government is ramping up efforts to understand and address the country's persistently declining birthrate with a ...

The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan” sheds light on the overlooked child poverty in Japan, where nearly half of the 1.4 ...

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

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