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Feb 13, 2016
Oda finishes ninth in 1,500 meters
Takuro Oda placed ninth in the men's 1,500 meters on a disappointing day for Japan at the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships on Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2015
Efforts increasing to keep Japan's single-parent kids off streets
Six boys and girls, the youngest only 4 years old, dined with local volunteers one September evening in a nursing care facility in Shiga Prefecture as part of a service to care for children of single-parent households when the parent is away.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2015
Laundry firm's flexibility cited as reason why single moms don't quit
Since joining the laundering company Kikuya in 1995, Akemi Hirayama says she has never missed a day of work.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 10, 2015
In Japan, 1 in 6 children lives in poverty, putting education, future at stake
"Abenomics" may have helped double stock prices and enabled companies like Toyota Motor Corp. to post record profits in Japan, but one segment of the economy remains behind: the poor.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2015
China's retro in vitro rules spark debate
In China, where tradional family values still rein supreme, unmarried women are not permitted to undergo in vitro fertilization. But voices for change are growing louder.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 26, 2015
High courts continue to issue mixed rulings on 2014 vote disparity
Japan's high courts on Thursday continued to issue mixed rulings on the constitutionality of the vote weight disparities in the 2014 lower house election, with one court questioning the validity of the poll and another ruling it constitutional.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2015
Kawasaki murder highlights poor support for single parents
The brutal murder of 13-year-old Ryota Uemura in Kawasaki last month has highlighted the challenges of single parenthood, which often involve struggles to sustain the family and adequately support children amid ineffective public assistance.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 15, 2014
LDP loses heavily in Okinawa
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party saw all of its four candidates defeated in single-seat constituencies in Okinawa in Sunday's Lower House election despite overwhelming support for the party elsewhere.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / DECISION 2014
Dec 10, 2014
Japan's persisting gender gap leaves many single moms in poverty
Yuka Suzuki, 47, has virtually no savings, earns about half the average national wage and cannot see where the money will come from to retire one day.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 20, 2014
Single fathers emerge from the shadows
Hiroki Yoshida, a father of three children aged 6, 8 and 11, suddenly became a single father four years ago, when his wife walked out without warning.
EDITORIALS
Apr 19, 2014
Isolation factor rising in Japan
Japan, once a family-based, group-oriented society, is becoming a place where people live alone.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 26, 2014
For young women sex industry offers safety net the government doesn't
Young women with little education and no prospects for marriage face a dire job situation, except for one area.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2014
Me time: Services for solo customers flourishing
Table for one? Then how about trying out karaoke for one? Or even golf or soccer? In the face of the declining population coupled with an increasing number of people who remain single, companies are beginning to target a new clientele — the solo customer.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2014
Hollande's split may scar the female electorate
French President Francois Hollande's glacial dismissal of the 'official' First Lady — 18 words long, including three uses of the personal pronoun 'I' — will do him no good with the French electorate.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2013
More kids on Ashinaga loans can't afford college
Financial woes are forcing an increasing number of high school students relying on loans for orphans and single-parent children to give up on going to college.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 3, 2013
Closet traditionalists still populate a supposedly single moms' world
Every day some 370,000 babies are born worldwide. Of those born on July 22, 2013, 369,999 went unnoticed outside their immediate circles. The exception was a royal prince, third in line to the British throne. His first photos show him blissfully unaware of the vast excitement he was causing. He'll come to know of it in time. What he'll think of it we will not presume to guess. We'll know soon enough, if the course of his life gets anything like the coverage his birth did.
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.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 18, 2013
1.62 million single jobless Japanese socially 'isolated': study
A total of 1.62 million single unemployed people between the ages of 20 and 59 were 'isolated' in Japanese society in 2011, according to a new study.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 16, 2013
Killer of one had no rap sheet, sentenced to hang
In a first for Japan's judicial system, a man is sentenced to hang for killing a woman even though there was only one victim and he had no prior criminal record.
EDITORIALS
May 3, 2011
Mental care for children
Many schools in areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami have started the new school year. Some schools, though, have no choice except to begin classes in early May because school buildings were damaged or were being used as temporary shelters for disaster survivors.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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