Japan has a hybrid system. The government pays 70 percent of the cost of all health procedures, unless you’re a low-income elderly resident, in which case it pays as much as 90 percent.

GOVERNMENT subsidies have been a consistent feature of Japanese practice since the country emerged from the feudal system in the eighteen-sixties. Japan's industrial history is singularly unlike that ...

With more foreign drivers on the road, and the number of accidents involving them also on the rise. Read more at straitstimes ...

Japan offers community-based initiatives to combat population decline 03:16. Tokyo — In Japan's northeast Miyagi prefecture, residents can find life partners via a government-sponsored ...

Japan’s active cyber defense system is a bold move to address the rising threat of cyberattacks. By combining advanced technology, public-private collaboration, and strict oversight, the ...

A think tank for Japan's Cabinet, the Economic and Social Research Institute (内閣府 経済社会総合研究所) (ESRI) published a study that quantified the present status of lifetime employment and seniority-based wage ...

Japan’s national healthcare system, which has the most hospital beds in the developed world per capita, has been praised in the past for its high quality of service. But the Covid-19 pandemic ...

Japan has seen a 6.1 percent increase in fatal car crashes involving elderly drivers over the last 10 years, and the government is planning on doing something about it. Olaf Protze/Getty Images ...

In Japan, missile warning system failures are heating up the political ... The government is preparing to wrap up its first reflections on the national security strategy since 2013 by the end ...

Japan should consider abolishing a foreign “technical intern” system that’s often used as a back door for cheap labor from overseas and replace it with a more realistic framework, a panel of ...

TOKYO: Japan's banking system is stable and the country will not see a contagion from US and European banking sector woes, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday (Mar 20). He also ...

Japan's sole custody laws have long been criticised for incentivising child abduction, but the system may be about to change, with Australia playing a key role behind the scenes.