The rising cost of living and income insecurity are affecting the family planning of Japanese couples, with fewer now hoping for a second child even as the government works to make early childhood education and childcare free.
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended mixed Thursday, as investors grew wary over the possible ouster of Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang, while buying dri
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said Thursday the yen's fall in recent days has been "too rapid," in an apparent warning
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TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Nov. 10 that the personal information of 475 people who took part in its Tokyo Green Biz Walk eve
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The Supreme Court has ruled that last summer's Senate election, in which the maximum disparity in the value of votes among electoral districts reached
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SAITAMA -- A former employee of a prepared-food company near Tokyo was arrested Nov. 11 for allegedly placing unnecessary orders for gold leaf and cau
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese medical society has called on doctors to generally avoid using the term "abnormal delivery" when speaking to expectant and
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NAGASAKI (Kyodo) -- Bank of Japan Policy Board member Toichiro Asada on Thursday warned of downside risks to the economy from raising interest rates.T
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TOYAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Prosecutors again sought the death penalty Thursday for a former Self-Defense Forces member in his retrial over the 2018 kill
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TOKYO -- The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has applied the commitment procedure under the country's antimonopoly law to Amazon Japan, the local a
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's ruling coalition and a major opposition party on Thursday submitted a bill to parliament to cut 31 seats in the House of Repr
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TOKYO -- The University of Tokyo's College of Arts and Sciences held a briefing for students on the evening of Nov. 11 over the selection of the unive
