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FAMILIES

Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 14, 2019
Can Japan's families remain relevant in contemporary times?
"Why don't they get married?" anguished parents wonder of their aging unmarried children.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Jul 30, 2018
60% of families in Japan use smartphones during family time
Sixty percent of parents and children in Japan use their smartphones or cellphones when they are together for family time, the highest percentage in a comparison with the U.S., South Korea and China.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2018
Marriage quest finds some Japanese men looking to share household duties with female partners
Tokyoite Kiyoshi is 38 years old and is still waiting for luck in love. But when he finds his future life partner, he says he will be willing to handle family duties in the belief that men's and women's roles at home are equal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 31, 2017
From furaryman to 'Nige-haji'
To encourage more young people to start families, Japan must create an environment in which mothers can work and men do more to help out around the home.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 10, 2017
Reason prevails over emotion
'I want to go to either Gusto or Saizeriya (family restaurants).'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
May 23, 2016
New Philippines leader Duterte plans to strongly push family planning law, aide says
In a move that could add to simmering tensions with the Catholic church, Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte will aggressively implement the country's family planning law to push his economic growth agenda, one of his aides said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 6, 2016
250,000 Japanese engaged in 'double care' of children, adult family members: survey
An estimated 253,000 people are currently shouldering the double burden of raising children while also caring for sick or elderly family members, a recent survey by the Cabinet Office has found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 17, 2015
Young single Japanese less keen to have children
More single people in their 20s say they don't want any children, think it's costly and exhausting to raise them, and show little interest in kids in general, according to a new survey.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Nov 1, 2014
Lost in translation
Dad, are we lost?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 2, 2013
Trust no one: Japan's magazines offer a bleak message
What a bleak picture emerges from the nation's weekly and monthly periodicals: Trust is simple-minded, mistrust paranoid.
WORLD / Society
May 30, 2013
Nearly 40% of U.S. moms are family breadwinners
In a trend accelerated by the recent recession and an increase in births to single mothers, nearly 4 in 10 families with children under the age of 18 are now headed by women who are the sole or primary breadwinners for their families, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center....
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2013
Ensure sufficient welfare support
The government must ensure that adjustments to the livelihood assistance program don't rip the economic safety net from out under Japan's poor.
Heatstroke alert issued for 19 prefectures as Japan enters 'once-in-a-decade' heat wave
Japan will experience a heat wave through mid-July on a “level only seen once in a decade,” the Meteorological Agency said on June 30.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.
A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat
Once a way to transport lumber from the mountains to the coast, log rafting is now Kitayama's biggest attraction.

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