Many Japanese men and women are still having a hard time balancing work and family life, due mainly to long work hours, a government white paper said Tuesday. To improve the situation, the government needs to boldly implement Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s initiative for ...
Suicides in Japan decreased for the sixth straight year in 2015, though it remains a serious problem among the elderly and younger generations, according to a government report released Tuesday. The percentage of suicides committed by both elderly and young people rose compared with ...
The Cabinet on Friday approved a white paper to boost the nation’s rural tourism sector as it aims to increase overseas visitor numbers to 40 million by 2020. The white paper on tourism said global travel was estimated to grow to 1.8 billion tourists ...
The government will expand aid to Asian countries amid China’s growing maritime assertiveness in the South China Sea, according to an annual report on foreign aid, the contents of which were obtained by Kyodo News on Tuesday. The Foreign Ministry’s latest white paper on ...
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry pledged Tuesday to step up support for marriage, birth and child care as part of efforts to stem the population decline. In its 2015 white paper on health, labor and welfare, submitted to a Cabinet meeting, the ministry ...
The Defense Ministry says it remains deeply concerned about China's maritime ambitions in the region, particularly in the light of Chinese domestic trends.
The government is concerned about weak growth capability and profitability at internationally-active Japanese companies, compared with their foreign rivals, an annual report said Friday. It is necessary to make Japanese businesses more competitive through the concentration of management resources and the promotion of effective ...
The number of suicides in Japan dropped in 2014 for the fifth straight year, but the margin of decline among people under 40 was relatively small, indicating there is still “a serious problem” among the younger generation, the government said in a report released ...
Japan is deeply concerned that China’s rapidly expanding maritime and airspace activities around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea could trigger an unwanted clash, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday in its white paper for 2014. The annual report, approved by the Cabinet, ...
South Korea’s Gender Equality and Family Ministry will issue a white paper on the wartime “comfort women” around the end of 2015 and distribute it worldwide, it said Sunday. In the report, the ministry will refer to documents and studies on Japan’s wartime prostitution ...
China’s demarcation of an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea is escalating the situation and could trigger an unwanted clash, a draft overview of Japan’s upcoming white paper on defense showed Wednesday, taking aim at Beijing for its “unilateral” attempts to ...
A recent increase in land prices reflects growing demand from buyers seeking yield and location, unlike during the bubble economy period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it was speculators who drove prices higher, the government said Tuesday. In its 2014 white ...
