The figures follow trends worldwide, but especially in East Asia, where Japan, South Korea and other nations have seen their ...

Among the proponents of studying abroad, even with the costs involved, is Tokyo mayor Yuirko Koike, who has announced a plan for the Tokyo metropolitan government ... system comes at a time when there ...

Japan’s fertility rate started declining 50 years ago. It is possible that the circumstances the Land of the Rising Sun faced over the last half a century may be quite different from what we are ...

Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s ...

The single-seat constituency system was considered more likely to bring about a change of government because it ... of those who back Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) gave positive marks ...

The welfare ministry is moving to make permanent a temporary measure that allows part-time workers to remain dependents even ...

“Tokyo will be the first example in Japan to introduce such a system.” Koike was the first Tokyo governor to attend a COP conference, metropolitan government officials said. Organizers of the ...

Millions of smartphone users are set to see a ten-second warning appear on their devices later this year as the UK Government repeats a test of its controversial emergency alert system.

Emergency alert’ to be sent to UK phones as government tests alarm warning system - Senior government officials will also be ...

Dates in Japan work on a different system to the rest of the world ... Despite an already crippling debt, the government pushed even more bonds into the market. They correctly estimated that a ...

The seven decades of "artificial intelligence" have been marked by exaggerated promises, surprising developments and ...