Japan's "technical intern" programme is a valuable source of labour given Japan's ageing population and small pool of migrant workers, but the scheme has been dogged ...

Pregnant women at Kadena Air Base in Japan are being notified they won’t be able to deliver their babies at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, the only full-servce medical center on the island, due to a ...

A former Bank of Japan official who once wore a “pregnancy belly” for two days was chosen to replace female minister Seiko Noda as the cabinet head in charge of tackling the country’s plummeting birth ...

Pregnant women in Japan who responded to an online survey early in the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated higher levels of anxiety compared to women undergoing fertility treatments and to pregnant women ...

Under the new rules, only the person who will take the medication may buy it, and it must be taken in the presence of a ...

You may have noticed I haven’t posted much about eating sushi. That’s because I’m pregnant in Japan! I’m only about four months along, but I thought I’d look into some of the benefits that come with ...