A dire trend in graying Japan is expected to worsen over the coming decades, with close to half of all households forecast to ...

Driven by the weak yen, Japan's economic output produced its lowest percentage on record in the global economy last year, ...

A recent increase in bankruptcies caused by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about widespread defaults on government-guaranteed “zero-zero loans” extended to help businesses get ...

Health care experts around Japan are increasingly prescribing “community ties” instead of medicine to improve the health and ...

Close to half a million university aspirants across Japan began two days of unified entrance exams from Jan. 18. This ...

Teachers and staff members are responsible for more than half of the incidents of harassment and other difficulties ...

In 2060, 17.7 percent of Japanese age 65 or older will likely have dementia, the health ministry announced on May 8.

Anticipated shortages in the medical and elderly care sector are of growing concern as Japan braces for a sharp drop in its ...

At least 200 university departments in Japan should offer degrees through English-language courses to international students ...

Amid increasing calls for reform, the Justice Ministry will review Japan’s retrial system, which allows for the reopening of ...

The labor ministry plans to require all companies with 101 or more employees to disclose their ratios of women in management ...

The nonprofit organization Metanoia is holding a crowdfunding campaign to establish permanent Japanese language classrooms in ...