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

KAWACHINAGANO, Japan — On the top floor of a mall in south-central Japan, there exists a child care center modeled after a small American city: Carmel, Indiana. Scattered throughout the room were ...

NAGI, Japan — For decades, this lush mountain town’s specialty was growing rice, black soybeans and satoimo, a taro root that features widely in Japanese cuisine and serves as the town’s official ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled on Tuesday a package of wide-ranging measures to reverse a dwindling birthrate, saying the problem needed to be tackled as an ageing ...

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 ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began a campaign called "womenomics" in 2013 in a bid to empower women and boost the economy by increasing female participation in the labor force. Womenomics has ...

Military parents are about to see a big drop in their child care fees. Pictured here, teachers at Yoiko Child Development Center help students during a stamp painting activity at Misawa Air Base, ...

Nearly three out of four working women in Japan cited the high cost of child-rearing as a major cause for the constant decline in the country's birth rate, according to a survey report. About 74.2 ...

Pakistan, July 26 -- The inauguration ceremony for "The Project for the Extension of Maternal and Child Health Care Facility in Sindh" was held at Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences ...