Amid rising child care costs, some have turned to the au pair program as a cheaper alternative. Some say the workers need ...

Jocelyn Valle Just like Filipinos and many other nationalities, the Japanese love giving and receiving gifts, or what they ...

The president-elect wants to keep U.S. Steel a domestically-owned company, citing national security concerns, but Nippon ...

It is probably time to rethink Japan's pension system, designed as it was for an era when full-time homemakers were the norm.

TOKYO — Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught ...

Gov. Yuriko Koike on Dec. 3 announced plans to introduce a system that would give metropolitan government workers the option ...

A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility and another man nearby in Hyogo Prefecture on Tuesday, ...

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As the crisis of not enough childcare resources continues in California, one Bay Area mom is hoping to bridge that gap with a ...

A daycare evacuated its students after a frozen water pipe burst Monday afternoon, according to the center’s leaders.

Across East Asia a quiet revolution is reshaping fatherhood. Rigid and conservative gender roles, which involve a male ...