White paper cites deep concern over reclusive state’s recent advances in ICBM technology, while also hitting China for its maritime expansion.
Japan's agricultural sector has seen a major shift from family-owned businesses to corporate operators employing a growing number of younger farmers, according to the fiscal 2016 white paper on agriculture approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday. The paper says that the number of farmers under ...
Crime in Japan has dropped to a postwar low, but the bad news is that seniors are committing more offenses because they have nowhere else to go.
The nation’s first white paper on “karoshi” finds nearly a quarter of companies have employees that are seriously overworked.
The burden of raising children and caring for sick or elderly family members at the same time, known as "double care," is a matter of concern to a large portion of the population.
Suicides in Japan decreased for the sixth straight year in 2015, though it remains a serious problem among the elderly and younger generations, according to a government report released Tuesday. The percentage of suicides committed by both elderly and young people rose compared with numbers ...
The Cabinet on Friday approved a white paper to boost the nation's rural tourism sector as it aims to increase overseas visitor numbers to 40 million by 2020. The white paper on tourism said global travel was estimated to grow to 1.8 billion tourists a ...
The government will expand aid to Asian countries amid China's growing maritime assertiveness in the South China Sea, according to an annual report on foreign aid, the contents of which were obtained by Kyodo News on Tuesday. The Foreign Ministry's latest white paper on the ...
The Defense Ministry says it remains deeply concerned about China's maritime ambitions in the region, particularly in the light of Chinese domestic trends.
The number of suicides in Japan dropped in 2014 for the fifth straight year, but the margin of decline among people under 40 was relatively small, indicating there is still "a serious problem" among the younger generation, the government said in a report released ...
Japan is deeply concerned that China's rapidly expanding maritime and airspace activities around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea could trigger an unwanted clash, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday in its white paper for 2014. The annual report, approved by the Cabinet, also ...
China's demarcation of an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea is escalating the situation and could trigger an unwanted clash, a draft overview of Japan's upcoming white paper on defense showed Wednesday, taking aim at Beijing for its "unilateral" attempts to ...
