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But such policy measures would be unprecedented in the developed world, according to reports. Kyodo News reported Tuesday the proposal was concerned with welfare spending at a time when Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

has since gained over 19,000 signatures in Japan and gone viral on social media. Ishikawa decided to start the movement, called #KuToo (a reference to the #MeToo movement, Kyoto News reports) after ... ( read original story ...)

A social media campaign against dress codes and expectations that women wear high heels at work has gone viral in Japan, with thousands joining the #KuToo movement. Nearly 20,000 women have signed an ... ( read original story ...)

She called the campaign the #KuToo movement, which is a play on #MeToo and an amalgam of the Japanese terms for “shoes” and “pain.” At a news conference, the 32-year-old Ishikawa said that the ... ( read original story ...)

“We need to restart train operations as early as possible, as there is a limit to substituting services by buses,” said Yokohama Seaside Line President Akihiko Mikami at a news conference prior to the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should deploy expansive fiscal stimulus "without hesitation" next year if overseas economies pose downside risks to growth, a draft of the government's annual economic policy ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese economy minister Toshimitsu Motegi told a news conference after a regular cabinet meeting. Japan and the United States will hold working-level talks on trade in the United States on June ... ( read original story ...)

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are more than a year away, but controversy for ticket holders is already brewing. Per the fine print on the terms and conditions of ticket purchase, attendees will be barred ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA--A power unit malfunction is believed to have caused an automated train here to depart a station in the wrong direction, injuring more than a dozen passengers. No irregularities were found in ... ( read original story ...)

Movie ticket prices in Japan have been raised for the first time in 26 years. Astonishingly, standard admission prices have stood at ￥1,800 (just under £14) since the last price hike, way back in 1993 ... ( read original story ...)

according to Kyodo News. In that incident, the suspect was also a middle-aged social recluse -- known in Japan as "hikikomori" -- who rarely left the house where he lived with his elderly aunt and ... ( read original story ...)

The campaign is referred to in Japan as #KuToo. It plays on the Japanese words for shoes "kutsu" and pain "kutsuu" and also references the #MeToo movement, according to Kyodo News. Campaigners say ... ( read original story ...)

Hideaki Kumazawa, who served as a top bureaucrat in the farm ministry, was arrested on Saturday for stabbing his 44-year-old son Eiichiro to death at their home in Tokyo, Kyodo News agency reported. ... ( read original story ...)

No. 1 Naomi Osaka was shockingly ousted from the French Open over the weekend, closing her shot at a third consecutive Grand Slam title and an eventual calendar Grand Slam. Osaka, who opened the year ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, Japan - A group of Japanese women Monday submitted a petition to the government to protest what they say is a de-facto requirement for female staff to wear high heels at work. The #KuToo ... ( read original story ...)

The incidents spotlight Japan's growing legion of adult hikikomori ... told investigators his alarm over his son was provoked by news last week of a knife-wielding man who slashed at a group of ... ( read original story ...)