Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday opposed ... account budget shortages if ETF dividends are to be used for the childcare support, he said at the parliament.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to increase childcare leave benefits in a bid to reverse the country's plummeting birth rate. Kishida told a press conference on Friday that the ...

The percentage of men in Japan taking childcare leave remains low. The government aims to change that by boosting the allowance for childcare leave. But workplace attitudes must also change.

A government survey found that the number of working fathers taking childcare leave rose by 13.0 points in fiscal 2023 to 30.1%. According to the Basic Survey on Employment conducted annually by ...

Stocks dropped after Japan’s governing party chose Shigeru Ishiba, a critic of the country’s longstanding ultralow interest ...

Shigeru Ishiba was elected as the new prime minister of Japan on Friday. The country’s governing political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, voted for the former minister of defense to lead ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --The newly elected leader of Japan's ruling political party has selected his cabinet as the incoming prime minister. Last week, Japan's former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbles nearly 5% after its ruling party chose Ishiba as the next prime minister TOKYO -- Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbles nearly 5% after its ...

Japan’s incoming Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would call a snap election on Oct. 27, a year ahead of schedule, days after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership contest.

Japan’s top government spokesman still hopes that Nippon Steel’s $14.1 billion takeover bid for US Steel Corp will be resolved in a mutually beneficial way for both companies in comments ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core machinery orders unexpectedly fell 0.1% in July from the previous month, government data showed on Wednesday. That compared with a 0.5% rise expected by economists ...

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Friday in Asunción to strengthen bilateral ties as well as to further discuss a free trade agreement (FTA ...