Around the end of each year's rainy season in July, it's common for the media to run articles on the subject of sleep. Hot weather is not the only factor that makes Japan less conducive to sleeping in summer. Since daylight savings is not ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Wednesday upgraded its forecast of Japan's economic growth for 2017, citing robust exports mainly to Asia and fiscal stimulus. In its latest Global Economic Outlook report, the OECD said Japan's real gross domestic product will likely rise ...
Mandatory quotas for hiring and promoting women are options Japan could consider to take its "womenomics" push to the next level, according to the social policy chief at the OECD. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government deserves credit for striving to improve the status of women ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has urged Japan to improve social services for young people, in particular women, to enable and motivate more active participation in the labor market. In its latest report on the state of disadvantaged young people disclosed Monday, the OECD ...
The OECD is set to appoint Masamichi Kono, a former senior official at the Financial Services Agency, as deputy secretary-general, according to informed sources. Kono, 61, will succeed Rintaro Tamaki, 63, whose term is scheduled to expire at the end of July. Kono, an expert in ...
In the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Japan ranked No. 42 among 47 participating countries or regions in “students’ satisfaction with life.”
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Thursday called for Japan to promote labor reforms by imposing a binding cap on overtime work and removing obstacles to women's employment because its job market is tight. Wage growth remains "surprisingly muted" despite labor shortages, the ...
The United States topped the official development assistance rankings among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, followed by Germany and Britain.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reiterated Tuesday its projection of 2017 global economic growth of 3.3 percent, with consumption, investment and trade lacking strength. But the OECD lifted its outlook for the world's three largest economies — forecasting the Japanese economy to grow ...
By 2030 life expectancy for South Korean women could top nine decades, an average lifespan long thought to be out of reach, researchers said Wednesday. South Korea is not only the first country in the world where women may live past 90 on average, it ...
The education ministry said Tuesday it is calling on boards of education nationwide to provide a holiday for overworked junior high and high school teachers, many of whom are exhausted from having to supervise extracurricular activities such as sports, even on weekends. Compared with other ...
Japanese 15-year-olds continued to rank high among their international peers in science and mathematics, according to a global academic assessment released Tuesday by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In the latest Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, conducted in 2015, Japanese students ...
