The scheme is meant to ease domestic burdens that discourage working mothers from having children. Read more at ...

Tokyo’s governor wants to introduce a four-day work week for government staffers in the capital as part of a nationwide push ...

Gov. Yuriko Koike on Dec. 3 announced plans to introduce a system that would give metropolitan government workers the option ...

PM Shigeru Ishiba has called Japan ’s stubbornly low birth rate a ‘quiet emergency and has pledged policies like flexible ...

TOKYO: Tokyo's governor wants to introduce a four-day workweek for government staffers in the capital as part of a nationwide ...

Members of the general public head to offer prayers at Princess Yuriko's main funeral ceremony, called "Renso-no-Gi," at the ...

The capital is joining a growing number of local governments introducing similar measures to improve working conditions amid ...

At the tomb, Emperor Naruhito offered a tamagushi ritual offering and bowed deeply, as did Empress Masako after him.

Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) appointed party-hopping lawmaker Seiji Maehara to a key post, raising alarms both ...

If you want to make tagine-style dish but don't have a traditional tagine, look to this common cooking vessel to solve all ...

A Texas Carol, Part Deux Let’s see, the last time we saw the Dinkle family at A.D. Players in A Texas Carol, beloved ...

Marking her 23rd birthday on Dec. 1, Princess Aiko fondly recalled the first trip she made outside Tokyo alone this autumn as ...