The recent online publication of Japan's 2025 children's version of the Defense White Paper and the distribution of the 2024 ...

Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo ...

In August, an 18-year-old Kurdish high school student boarded a plane to return to Turkey, where he was born. His return ...

Japan will significantly expand childcare, education and wage-related support starting in 2026 as part of broader measures to ...

There were 36.8 million visitors to Japan in 2024, of which about 690,000 were aged four or younger. Read more at ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers common reader questions about Japan's system for verifying whether people seeking or working in ...

The total number of births in Japan this year is expected to come in below 670,000—far fewer than the official forecasts put ...

The Children and Families Agency on Dec. 22 finalized a draft of guidelines for a child-protection system that allows ...

Japan’s challenge is to reconcile the desire to preserve creative and erotic expression with the need to ensure that public ...

By 2050, Japan’s youth will inherit a transformed country, reshaped by population decline, longer lives and unprecedented ...

Nobuko Rena Nakayama says she still suffers from an identity crisis after being forced to move to Japan from Canada in 1946.

Japan changes the law to stop parents giving their children names considered strange. Learn about this story and some useful ...