Japan's prime minister unveiled a $25 billion plan on Thursday to expand support for young people and families in a bid to ...

Japan will spend around ¥3.5 trillion ($25 billion) on policies meant to bolster its sliding birthrate, Prime Minister Fumio ...

Japan on Friday unveiled an outline of its mid-term economic roadmap that featured Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's "new ...

Japan has earmarked the next three years as the last chance to reverse the falling birthrate and halt an ... A more opaque proposal calls for changing the overall social structure and entrenched ...

Of the 3 trillion yen ($22.21 billion) needed each of the coming three years to boost childcare, roughly 1 trillion yen would need be funded by issuing bridging bonds, which will be repaid in future ...

More than nine out of 10 Japanese firms feel a sense of crisis about the country's accelerating birthrate decline, with few ...

Japan on Friday unveiled an outline of its mid-term economic roadmap that featured Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's policy priorities such as efforts to stem a declining birthrate with increases in ...

Familiar alarm bells sounded in Japan this month as year-end population figures and new projections combined to paint an uncertain future for Asia's No. 2 economy. Japan's total population stood ...

If adopted, the proposal for a 10-year peace plan keeps the moratorium on commercial whaling. Importantly, the three countries that at present set their own catch limits (Japan, Norway ...

When Okinawa was returned to Japan, the government released a statement pledging that Okinawa will be made a peaceful island. Tamaki’s proposal reaffirmed that Tokyo and Naha embraced the same ...

The EU was backing a proposal to halve the world’s ecological footprint, but China considerably weakened it to state that countries should “reduce the global footprint of consumption in an equitable ...