The Tokyo Metropolitan Government believes that couples are having fewer babies because they are working too much.

It's the second family-friendly policy out of Tokyo, following the municipal government's decision to offer a 4-day work week ...

Yuriko Backes welcomed another female defence minister into the Nato fold in the shape of Lithuania’s Dovile Sakaliene ...

Gov. Yuriko Koike announced in a Dec. 10 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly meeting a plan to make day care services free of charge ...

Tokyo will implement a four-day workweek for government employees next year to encourage young people to get married and ...

The Tokyo government plans to introduce a four-day workweek for its employees in an attempt to support young families and ...

Parents of young elementary students will also be allowed to trade part of their earnings for earlier clock-out times.

The Japanese capital is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees, in its latest push to help working ...

Princess Yuriko of Japan, who was the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, has died at 101 years old. Princess Yuriko — the wife of Emperor Hirohito’s brother — died at a Tokyo ...

Tokyo’s government will implement the four-day work week in April 2025, while additional plans are reportedly underway to ...

Tokyo's new policies include a four-day workweek and childcare partial leave, with the aim of addressing Japan's plummeting ...