Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Friday announced a plan to boost capacity at day care centers for children in Tokyo to 17,000 as part of efforts to ease the country’s chronic shortage of such spots at care facilities. The number of children on waiting ...
Government budget requests for fiscal 2017 totaled ¥101.47 trillion, topping ¥100 trillion for the third straight year, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday. The requests for the general account budget for the year that will start next April 1 were bigger than the initial budget ...
A record ¥112,102 billion in social security was paid out in fiscal 2014, up 1.3 percent from the previous year.
Central government debt stood at ¥1,049.37 trillion — or just over 1 quadrillion — at the end of March, up ¥4.78 trillion from three months earlier, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday. The growing debt reflects a lack of financial resources amid ballooning social security ...
The government should revise its definition of “the working population” and aim to have working environments where people of all ages, especially the elderly, can work flexibly, a policy subcommittee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party proposed Wednesday. In its statistics, the government currently ...
The labor minister pledges to look into why around 2 million firm employees are members of a pension program for the self-employed.
The new personal identification system for social security and taxation matters kicks off amid data security fears as local governments struggle to distribute the ID cards.
At first glance, it's hard to tell what's wrong with Keiko Sawada. As casual exchanges continue, however, it becomes increasingly clear the former bar hostess has serious memory problems.
Mail informing residents in Japan of their 12-digit number under the new My Number identification system has yet to be delivered to 23.7 percent of the country’s 56.84 million households as of the end of November, according to Japan Post Co. The new system ...
About 150 people file complaints with district courts across the nation calling on the government to cease using their My Number identification codes, saying the system will violate their right to privacy.
Japan is running out of cash to pay for its public health insurance and pension programs. Although credited with underpinning the national success story, the systems are under increasing strain as the population grays. Membership of the programs is mandatory for residents. They pay ...
A Finance Ministry panel on Tuesday urged the government to limit increases in social security expenses in fiscal 2016 as the state tries to rein in the costs of a graying society. “We’d like to call for limiting the increase for the ‘graying factor’ ...
