A day after credit-reporting company Equifax disclosed that "criminals" had stolen vital data on about 143 million Americans, it had somehow managed to leave much of the public in the dark about their exposure, how they should protect themselves and what Equifax planned to ...
General-account budget requests by government ministries and agencies totaled around ¥101 trillion ($913 billion) for fiscal 2018 amid ballooning social security expenses and record-high defense spending, government officials said Thursday. The budgetary requests submitted to the Finance Ministry topped the ¥100 trillion mark for the ...
General-account budget requests from government ministries and agencies for fiscal 2018, starting next April, are expected to top ¥100 trillion for the fourth straight year, according to sources. Defense spending is likely to grow due to the heightening tensions over North Korea, while social security ...
The Lower House signs off on a record high ¥97.45 trillion budget for fiscal 2017 that gives priority to social security and defense.
Japanese between 65 and 74 should no longer be classified as elderly because they are physically and mentally much younger than their counterparts were decades ago, says a proposal backed by two academic societies. Under the recommendation, released Thursday by the Japan Gerontological Society and ...
One year after the debut of the government's My Number identification card system, less than a third of residents expected to be issued cards have actually received one. The system, which assigns a number for social security and tax purposes, launched in January 2016. Funds ...
The government plans to adopt a fiscal 2017 general account budget that's worth more than ¥97 trillion, which would set a new record, sources said Friday. The budget will exceed the previous year's initial budget for the fifth consecutive year, the sources said. The initial ...
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Friday announced a plan to boost capacity at day care centers for children in Tokyo to 17,000 as part of efforts to ease the country's chronic shortage of such spots at care facilities. The number of children on waiting lists ...
Government budget requests for fiscal 2017 totaled ¥101.47 trillion, topping ¥100 trillion for the third straight year, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday. The requests for the general account budget for the year that will start next April 1 were bigger than the initial budget for ...
Central government debt stood at ¥1,049.37 trillion — or just over 1 quadrillion — at the end of March, up ¥4.78 trillion from three months earlier, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday. The growing debt reflects a lack of financial resources amid ballooning social security costs ...
The government should revise its definition of "the working population" and aim to have working environments where people of all ages, especially the elderly, can work flexibly, a policy subcommittee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party proposed Wednesday. In its statistics, the government currently defines ...
The labor minister pledges to look into why around 2 million firm employees are members of a pension program for the self-employed.
