Japan's government proposed a plan to address the country's declining birthrate to an expert panel on Thursday. One proposal calls for removing the upper income cap for monthly cash payments to ...

Announcing the draft plan at a news conference in March, Ogura Masanobu, minister in charge of declining birthrate measures, declared that "the next six to seven years will be Japan's final ...

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 ...

A task force of the Central Council for Education, which advises the education minister, is currently deliberating the future of universities in response to Japan's low birthrate. Meanwhile ...

This has deprived Japan of a third baby boom. The government’s draft proposal on lifting the dwindling birthrate released in March also cited economic instability as a main reason people were ...