To attract and retain personnel, prefectural governments across Japan are increasingly shifting to a flexible work-style system that allows employees to take three days off a week.

This will be the first such initiative at the prefectural level in Japan ... its own measures with the national system, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government began offering free day care services ...

The government plans to expand eligibility to include people taking up jobs in agriculture, medicine and welfare, as well as ...

AICHI (TR) – The Aichi Prefectural Government has revealed that a hospital in Ichinomiya City headed by Hirofumi Imamura, a ...

The prefectural government has earmarked 68.62 million yen ($609,200) for rebuilding an embankment with original stones found in Tokyo’s Minato Ward and other related projects. Half of the cost ...

The Tokyo prefectural government announced last week that it would foot the bill for testing immunity to Rubella for those eligible. The test is being offered to men living with a pregnant women ...

The wildfires burned through a cumulative 900ha, but no casualties have been reported. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A court on Friday ruled that it is legal for the local government to allow its land to be used free of charge for drainage ...

A sinkhole accident in Yashio is believed to have been caused by damage to an underground sewage pipe. Read more at ...

HACHIJO, Japan -- I am driving a rental scooter along Tokyo Prefectural Route 216 ... administered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's islands division, but it could hardly be more different.