Students who miss their high school entrance examinations due to menstrual symptoms will be eligible to take a supplementary examination, the education ministry announced.
Travel demand and personal consumption are recovering after Japan downgraded the severity level of COVID-19, but lifestyle changes due to the pandemic continue to drag down some sectors.
A 46-year-old woman living in the Tokyo metropolitan area feels a twinge of pain every time she hears about government spending plans to support younger generations and lift the declining birthrate.
Only about half of Japan’s governors are confident of meeting the central government request to expand the number of medical institutions willing and able to treat COVID-19 after it is downgraded as an infectious disease.