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 ...
Of the 5,423 foreigners arrested last year for committing crimes, more than 90 percent of them were living in the country legally, while illegal immigrants accounted for just 5.9 percent of the cases, unlike in the past, a report says.
There were around 12.53 million nonregular workers in Japan in 2010, of whom 1.49 million served as breadwinners of households with less than ¥3 million in annual income, the labor ministry said Friday in a white paper. Around 570,000 men and some 920,000 women ...
The economy is on the verge of emerging from nearly two decades of deflation as it has picked up since the beginning of the year, a government report said Tuesday, emphasizing positive aspects of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” policies. The economy, which has ...
The growing burden of housing loans has made it increasingly difficult for younger members of society to purchase their own homes, a government white paper said Tuesday. Between 1983 and 2008, the proportion of homeowners in their 30s dropped to 39 percent from 53.3 ...
Japan has been vigilant against China’s military buildup and North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats amid what it considers a worsening security environment, an overview of the Defense Ministry’s 2013 white paper said Tuesday. The ministry says a lack of transparency in Chinese military ...
Nearly 20 percent of male employees in their 30s work more than 60 hours a week, making it difficult for them to participate in raising children, a 2013 government white paper on dealing with the low birthrate shows.
Consultations provided to older people concerning consumer affairs increased sharply during the five years through fiscal 2012, according to the government’s first-ever white paper on consumer issues. Consultations for seniors increased 34.7 percent to 207,513 cases in fiscal 2012, compared with 2007, while the ...
Japan’s annual energy report released Friday barely refers to the fact that the previous government upheld a goal to phase out nuclear power in the 2030s, reflecting the pro-nuclear stance of the current government. The latest Energy White Paper covers a period between last ...
