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 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 ...

At Thursday's meeting, Fumio Kishida said he wanted to budget roughly 3.5 trillion yen ($25 billion) over the next three ...

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

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida proposed a long list of policy targets for this year, as speculation continues over ...

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 ...

Riding on G7 Success, Japan PM Kishida Eyes Early Election ... off on an announcement until his government unveils proposals to combat a falling birthrate and passes a measure to increase defence ...

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 ...

Few of Japan's opposition groups pose a ... to hold off on an announcement until his government unveils proposals to combat a falling birthrate and passes a measure to increase defence spending.