Japan has drawn up a draft plan designed to reverse the country's falling birthrate, which includes boosting financial ...

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

Japan's prime minister unveiled a $25 billion plan on Thursday to expand support for young people and families in a bid to help raise the country's plummeting birthrate. Larger direct subsidies for ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Japan-Korea tension has reached a peak in the last year. South Korea’s president, Park Geun-Hye, refuses to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, even after a year in office. Park has ...

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 ...

TOKYO, May 10 (Reuters) - A trio of European asset managers has submitted a shareholder proposal urging Toyota ... Daniel Leussink is a correspondent in Japan. Most recently, he has been covering ...