Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to increase childcare leave benefits in a bid to reverse the country's plummeting birth rate. Kishida told a press conference on Friday that the ...

TOKYO—Japan’s new prime minister has instructed his cabinet ministers to come up with a comprehensive economic package, taking his first step toward the goal of ensuring the country manages to ...

The percentage of men in Japan taking childcare leave remains low. The government aims to change that by boosting the allowance for childcare leave. But workplace attitudes must also change.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba instructed his cabinet on Friday to draw up a package of economic measures in a show of support to inflation-hit voters ahead of a general election.

A government survey found that the number of working fathers taking childcare leave rose by 13.0 points in fiscal 2023 to 30.1%. According to the Basic Survey on Employment conducted annually by ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has delayed his departure for three upcoming summits in Southeast Asia to sack and replace his justice minister, who was widely criticized over a remark he ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida steps down as planned before his likely successor Shigeru Ishiba takes office TOKYO -- Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida steps down as planned before ...

Japan's core machinery orders, which exclude those for ships and electric power companies, rose 2.7% M/M to 838.8 billion yen in December 2023, reversing from a 4.9% decline in November and ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core machinery orders unexpectedly fell 0.1% in July from the previous month, government data showed on Wednesday. That compared with a 0.5% rise expected by economists ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will propose a new happiness index during his first parliamentary policy speech on Friday, local media have reported. The index, formulated by the public and ...

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbles nearly 5% after its ruling party chose Ishiba as the next prime minister TOKYO -- Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbles nearly 5% after its ...

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Friday in Asunción to strengthen bilateral ties as well as to further discuss a free trade agreement (FTA ...