A student-led movement is campaigning to raise Japan's minimum wage and improve the lives of low-income workers as many continue struggling just to meet basic needs despite toiling for long hours. Some 1,500 people took to the streets of Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku district in mid-April ...
April Zhang, a 21-year-old student from Shanghai, reflects the fast-shifting attitudes of China's younger generations toward sex. She's confident to talk about a topic once taboo here and is well educated about the risks. Zhang and her young contemporaries- though far from uniform in their ...
With China's preferred candidate selected as Hong Kong's next chief executive, another blow to the morale of the city's democracy activists, their young leaders are taking a page from Beijing's playbook and preparing for a long battle. At the leafy campus of the Chinese University ...
Fewer people in their 20s hope to marry and have a child, according to the latest National Institution for Youth Education survey. "The issues of economic disparity and poverty seem to dampen" young people's interest in starting families, said Yoichi Akashi, director of the institution's ...
Just 45 percent of newly enfranchised 18- and 19-year-olds cast ballots in Sunday's Upper House election, lower than the overall turnout, according to the internal affairs ministry. Turnout among teen voters stood at 45.45 percent, 9.25 percentage points lower than the overall rate of 54.70 ...
Media exit polls show that a majority of those in their 20s or younger voted for the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, Komeito, in Sunday's Upper House election. Observers said the result doesn't necessarily reflect their active support for the ruling coalition ...
High school students in Ehime Prefecture on Sunday held a symposium in Matsuyama that aimed to raise political awareness among young people as teenagers voted for the first time in the Upper House election. Some 40 high school students from seven prefectures, including Niigata, Osaka ...
As Sunday's Upper House election in Japan nears, and with more than 2 million new 18- and 19-year-old voters, the U.N. youth envoy said he is excited about the potential of Japan's youth as they exercise their right to vote in a national poll ...
Three 18-year-old high school students at Shinagawa Joshi Gakuin in Tokyo said they were excited to cast their ballots in Sunday's Upper House election, being among the nation's first teenagers to join the electorate. "Just the thought of having a chance to possibly change the ...
At a registry office in Beijing, Sun Xiangshu and Shi Ci posed for photographs, their wedding certificates in hand, having just become man and wife. But like many unions in China, this was a marriage that wouldn't last long. In fact, their wedding was a ...
An ensemble of young Japanese musicians founded in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster is making its U.S. debut in Boston. The Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta will perform April 3 at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Senior musicians from Japan, the ...
On a winter day in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, people were picking apples in an orchard that had recovered from the deadly March 2011 tsunami. For the participants, too, the harvesting was a step toward recovery. It was part of a training camp to bring people ...
