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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy grew at an annual pace of 1.6% in the quarter through March as private demand rebounded after COVID-19-related restrictions were eased, according to data released ...