A research team has discovered an electrochemical method that allows highly selective para-position single-carbon insertion ...

Will Reeve’s cameo in 'Superman' is a moving nod to his father Christopher Reeve's legacy: 'It was a nice homage to my dad' ...

A record 80 percent of mothers in Japan had a job in 2024, a welfare ministry survey showed Friday. The proportion of working mothers rose 3.1 percentage points from the previous year to 80.9 percent, ...

Law requiring couples to share one surname hinders women in the workplace and lowers birth rate, campaigners claim ...

MAEBASHI -- While the intense summer heat continues in Japan, nearly 80% of single parents said they intended to refrain from using air conditioners to save money, and a majority wanted their ...

Japan’s fertility rate, which has seen a precipitous fall for many years, has reached another record low as the Tokyo government launches its own dating app.

SAITAMA -- In an effort to address poverty among single-parent families, the government of this eastern Japan city launched a program this fiscal year to pay child care expenses for single parents ...

Japan’s parliament on Friday passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many ...

TOKYO — Japan’s parliament on Friday passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line ...

Japan's parliament has passed a revision to the civil code, allowing divorced parents the option of joint child custody, effective by 2026, officials say.

Japan’s lawmakers pass a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, at the parliament in Tokyo Friday, May 17, 2024. The revision ...