Japan needs to hold fast in limiting the rise of social welfare spending, said Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Katsunobu Kato in a recent interview. To meet a spending limit set in fiscal 2015, Kato said he wants to adhere to a ¥500 billion ...
The government has placed a high priority on narrowing the gap in pay and benefits between regular and contract employees as this will raise productivity and consumer spending, said Katsunobu Kato, minister for labor market reform. Companies can afford to narrow the pay gap without ...
Katsunobu Kato, minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, on Saturday called for the return of all of Japanese abductees. "By leveraging pressure and through dialogue, we need to get North Korea to take concrete actions toward the return ...
Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, becoming the first Cabinet member to do so during the shrine's autumn festival. "As a Japanese, I expressed with reverence gratitude for those who died for the state," Takaichi ...
A representative for the families of Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago has expressed dismay at the "revolving-door" Cabinet appointments to the post of minister in charge of the issue. Referring to the appointment of Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato to the post, ...
A new Japanese Cabinet minister tasked with finding ways to boost the birthrate and keep a shrinking population from falling below 100 million said on Thursday he hoped to win over more Japanese to his view that child-rearing is rewarding. Solutions to Japan's population ...
Prime Minister Abe is counting on his new minister in charge of population decline to inspire imitators. He’s a father of four.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's newly created ministerial post is raising questions from the public and the opposition camp over concerns its roles will overlap with other agencies. Katsunobu Kato, 59, former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, was appointed the newly established minister in charge of building ...
The government has decided to create a new body that’s seen as a political maneuver by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to tighten his grip on powerful government bureaucrats.
Beijing's setting up an air defense identification zone over a section of the East China Sea violates a basic rule under international law and is a "very dangerous" move that could lead to "an unexpected event," a high-ranking Japanese official warns.
