Japan’s parliament on Friday passed a revision ... The revision requires the sharing of child rearing costs by the parent who is not the main custodian. Currently, most divorced mothers, who ...

childbirth and child rearing, are intertwined in a complex manner,” the representative said. The number of marriages in Japan was 474,717 in 2023, down by 30,213, or 6 percent, from the previous ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Japan's population has declined for the 15th ... billion for child care subsidies and other incentives to encourage ...

The birth rate in Japan continued to decline in the first half of this year, deepening a trend Tokyo says will be ...

For a group of Japanese researchers, the phenomenon of humor is no laughing matter. For three decades, the Japan Society for ...

Launched in September, "Melfami" is a website run by a group of volunteer mums with the goal of supporting child-rearing in a foreign ... connecting such Japanese mums, where they can share ...