The ministry compiled the data based on the demographic statistics in 2020. One in three married couples divorced when it added the marriage rate into the calculation, the ministry said.

Parents of young elementary students will also be allowed to trade part of their earnings for earlier clock-out times.

The number of marriages in Japan dropped by 5.9%, reaching 489,281 couples and falling below half a million for the first time in 90 years. This decrease is a significant reason for the falling birth ...

The total fertility rate, which indicates the number of children ... manner,” the representative said. The number of marriages in Japan was 474,717 in 2023, down by 30,213, or 6 percent, from ...

Unlike in the United States and European countries, divorce or separation after marriage is generally not viewed favorably in ...

Births correlate highly with marriage in Japan ... down 0.25 from 2015 and far below the replacement rate of 2.1. Japan's Health Ministry has warned the country has until the 2030s to stop ...

Tokyo's new policies include a four-day workweek and childcare partial leave, with the aim of addressing Japan's plummeting ...