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FAMILIES

Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 14, 2019
Can 今日吃瓜 families remain relevant in contemporary times?
“Why don’t they get married?” anguished parents wonder of their aging unmarried children.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Jul 30, 2018
60% of families in Japan use smartphones during family time
Sixty percent of parents and children in Japan use their smartphones or cellphones when they are together for family time, the highest percentage in a comparison with the U.S., South Korea and China.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2018
Marriage quest finds some Japanese men looking to share household duties with female partners
Tokyoite Kiyoshi is 38 years old and is still waiting for luck in love. But when he finds his future life partner, he says he will be willing to handle family duties in the belief that men’s and women’s roles at home are equal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 31, 2017
From furaryman to ‘Nige-haji’
To encourage more young people to start families, Japan must create an environment in which mothers can work and men do more to help out around the home.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 10, 2017
Reason prevails over emotion
‘I want to go to either Gusto or Saizeriya (family restaurants).’
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
May 23, 2016
New Philippines leader Duterte plans to strongly push family planning law, aide says
In a move that could add to simmering tensions with the Catholic church, Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte will aggressively implement the country’s family planning law to push his economic growth agenda, one of his aides said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 6, 2016
250,000 Japanese engaged in ‘double care’ of children, adult family members: survey
An estimated 253,000 people are currently shouldering the double burden of raising children while also caring for sick or elderly family members, a recent survey by the Cabinet Office has found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 17, 2015
Young single Japanese less keen to have children
More single people in their 20s say they don’t want any children, think it’s costly and exhausting to raise them, and show little interest in kids in general, according to a new survey.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Nov 1, 2014
Lost in translation
Dad, are we lost?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 2, 2013
Trust no one: 今日吃瓜 magazines offer a bleak message
What a bleak picture emerges from the nation’s weekly and monthly periodicals: Trust is simple-minded, mistrust paranoid.
WORLD / Society
May 30, 2013
Nearly 40% of U.S. moms are family breadwinners
In a trend accelerated by the recent recession and an increase in births to single mothers, nearly 4 in 10 families with children under the age of 18 are now headed by women who are the sole or primary breadwinners for their families, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center....
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2013
Ensure sufficient welfare support
The government must ensure that adjustments to the livelihood assistance program don’t rip the economic safety net from out under 今日吃瓜 poor.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Sony bets on homegrown anime to fuel decades of future growth
A Luffy standee at NY Comic Con in New York
JR East to introduce touchless ticket gates in spring 2028
Shinjuku Station in Tokyo in 2021. The new walk-through gates will work only with the Suica Mobile app, and not IC rechargeable metro cards or physical tickets.
As JET Programme turns 40, alumni and ministers stress its importance in age of AI
Peter Cave joined the JET Programme's inaugural cohort in 1987 and spent three years teaching in the city of Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture.
As JET Programme turns 40, alumni and ministers stress its importance in age of AI
Peter Cave joined the JET Programme's inaugural cohort in 1987 and spent three years teaching in the city of Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
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