Tag: Nagoya

Candles illuminated the Nishiumeda business district in this western Japan city's Kita Ward on the night of June 5 for an event to promote en ... ( read original story ...)

Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall’s new site is just that: An effort to create couples, “futari,” in a country where it is increasingly common to be “hitori,” or alone ... ( read original story ...)

A 2021 study featured [PDF] in Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Measures to Combat the Declining Birthrate 2024 found that 70 percent of surveyed Tokyo resident expressed they intend to marry but 67.4 ... ( read original story ...)

Elon Musk has long been an advocate for increasing birth rates. In 2021, during an event, he emphasised the importance of having more children, warning that if people don't do so, "civilization is ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s total fertility rate, or the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during her lifetime, fell below 1.00 for the first time, and officials are scrambling to reverse the trend. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks advanced Thursday morning, as the market was lifted by strong technology shares following a record-high finish for the t ( read original story ...)

U.S. contemporary artist Theaster Gates says his first solo exhibition in Japan is a culmination of years of influence the Asian nati ( read original story ...)

When Costco Wholesale opened its warehouse in a rural Japanese town not far from Tokyo last year offering hundreds of jobs at eye-popping pay, a nearby noodle shop chain took a drastic step: it hiked hourly wages by a third. ( read original story ...)

The Lower House of Japan's Diet is expected to pass a bill to revise the political funds control law on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

The twisted relationship between a couple and their daughter indicted on charges of murdering and decapitating a 62-year-year man at a Sapp ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s capital will launch its own dating app as early as this summer as part of government efforts to boost the plunging national birth rate, a Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

Multiple studies in the UK, the US and Australia show that people from Gen Z are more sober than their parents and grandparents.In Japan, faced with declining alcohol tax revenues, the authorities ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese champion runner Tomomi Bitoh completed a 170-km (106-mile) race in the Himalayas last November, and immediately made a beeline for a Tokyo clinic to begin freezing her eggs, hoping to keep alive her dream of becoming a mother. ( read original story ...)

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The Japanese government data shows the country's birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth straight year in 2023. ( read original story ...)

Food industry companies facing staff shortages may find some kitchen help at an exhibition highlighting robots with cooking skills. ( read original story ...)