The Tokyo metropolitan assembly passed the first ordinance in Japan aimed at protecting service workers from abuse and unreasonable demands from customers on Oct. 4. The ordinance to prevent ...

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Japan’s already low birth rates have further declined. Last year, the nation’s “total fertility rate,” which indicates the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during ...