It’s a start. Japan, very far in the forefront of the developed world’s rapid aging, suffers the paralysis of its core problem: an instinctive resistance to change in changing – not to say lurching – ...

Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater ...

Female full-time workers’ pay in Japan starts below those of men in their ... according to the study. In that age group, women in “manufacturing” earned 87.0 compared with 100 for men.

In Japan, change tends to move at its own pace — especially ... According to the NHK National Life and Time Survey (Japanese), TV viewing declined across all age groups under 70 between 1995 and 2015 ...

There were more than 80,000 organized crime gang members in Japan as of 2009, but numbers have plummeted in subsequent years. Factors in the decline include the increasing age of members and the ...