A recent proposal issued by Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, along with various other current private- and public-sector initiatives, signals a strong interest in promoting.
The government has modified Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's pledge of doubling the Japanese government's childcare budget from the current 2 percent of the country's gross domestic product to counter the declining birthrate.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is grilled by the opposition bloc over a magazine report that his son, Shotaro, who is also his secretary, went on a private sightseeing trip paid for by taxpayers while on official overseas business in January.