With low crime rates and free day care, Japan may seem like an ideal place to raise kids. But American mothers say they deal with cultural differences, such as babysitters being uncommon. One mom told ...

AKASHI, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised "new dimension" measures to address an existential crisis: his country's plunging birth rate. Fewer than 800,000 babies were born in ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Japan's biggest opposition party is set to propose the government taps dividend income from exchange-traded funds (ETF) owned by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to help fund a ...

TOKYO, June 8 (Reuters) - Japan aims to reform labour law, easing the way for couples to work and share household chores, in a bid to avert an expected sharp fall in the number of its young people by ...

Japan, already a world leader in pro-natal policy, must dramatically boost child allowances to make a difference, an analyst ...

The government agency overseeing child policies on Thursday announced a new certification mark for entities taking part in a "Japanese DBS" program to check the sexual offense histories of people ...