Progress in the government's bid to digitalize public services
One woman found that re-entering Japanese society as a citizen was more difficult than trying to enter British society as a foreign national.
Record 16% of fathers in Japan's civil service took child care leave in 2019
The health ministry reported the highest ratio among eligible male staff at 59.2%, while the Defense Ministry and the Imperial Household Agency recorded figures of just over 5%.
Japanese business leaders target overwork among country's bureaucrats
A group made up of the heads of leading companies in Japan has begun collecting signatures online as part of a bid to slash overtime work in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district, home to many central government offices, as the coronavirus pandemic forces government employees to ...
Japan's police agency to drop mandatory hanko for 315 procedures
The National Police Agency says it receives 7.9 million applications for parking-space certification and 3.6 million for public-road use every year.
Re-edited version of book by Suga drops part on keeping records
The part, which stresses the importance of maintaining records, has been replaced with an interview with the then-chief Cabinet secretary.
Could reform mission put Taro Kono on path to succeed Suga?
Driving reforms is giving the media- and social media-savvy 57-year-old the opportunity to raise his political profile by playing to his strengths. Will it be enough?
As of the end of September, the municipal government of Fukuoka made the use of hanko unnecessary for some 3,800 types of administrative procedure documents.
Tokyo conference debates new normals as coronavirus drives change
Experts at the annual G1 Global Conference discussed the upending of traditional practices, digitalization, working styles and widening inequality.
Taro Kono looks to pinpoint what is demotivating young Japanese bureaucrats
According to a survey of 45,000 government officials, 14.7 percent of males under the age of 30 were planning to call it quits within the next three years.
Japan's red-tape 'hotline' open again for gripes, Taro Kono says
Messages will be delivered to related government agencies after being checked by officials of the Cabinet Office and the Cabinet Secretariat.
