Children from Taiwan have visited an elementary school in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, for cultural exchanges.

Foreign-born children who grew up in Japan but lack residency status are being denied access to higher education, despite speaking fluent Japanese and completing compulsory schooling in the country.

The number of kodomo shokudō "children's cafeterias," which provide free or low-cost meals mainly to children in need in Japan, has reached a record 12,601 this fiscal year, according to a survey by a ...

I was born in Khabarovsk, Russia, in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but moved with my mother to Japan when I was five years old. We lived in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, at first. A family ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - About a third of 18-year-old women in Japan may never have children, a government institute said on Wednesday, in the latest data spelling an uphill battle to reverse a dwindling ...