TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to reform labour law, easing the way for couples to work and share household chores, in a bid to avert an expected sharp fall in the number of its young people by the ...

Among them, the proportion of those who took child care leave for more than one month stood at 51.4%, exceeding 50% for the ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled "unprecedented'' spending plans on Monday designed to tackle the country's plunging birthrate and guarantee its national security. In a ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Japan's biggest opposition party is set to propose the government taps dividend income from exchange-traded funds (ETF) owned by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to help fund a ...

KAWACHINAGANO, Japan — On the top floor of a mall in south-central Japan, there exists a child care center modeled after a small American city: Carmel, Indiana. Scattered throughout the room were ...

Provided by midwives and trained caregivers, such services offer hands-on child care assistance or short-term newborn care so ...

Nearly three out of four working women in Japan cited the high cost of child-rearing as a major cause for the constant decline in the country's birth rate, according to a survey report. About 74.2 ...

TOKYO, June 8 (Reuters) - Japan aims to reform labour law, easing the way for couples to work and share household chores, in a bid to avert an expected sharp fall in the number of its young people by ...

Amid a continuing shift toward nuclear families, demand for postnatal care services that support mothers and newborns after childbirth is rising across Japan. Provided by midwives and trained ...