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CABINET OFFICE

Â鶹´«Ã½ real challenge in the age of artificial intelligence is not technological progress but rebuilding the trust and human connections that help young people feel heard, supported and safe.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 12, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ real AI problem is not technology. It is trust.
People who feel they matter are more likely to seek help when they need it because they trust that someone will listen. People who feel invisible often remain silent.
Mount Fuji seen from central Tokyo in February 2025. The government is discussing measures to deal with volcanic ash falling in the Tokyo metropolitan area in the event of an eruption.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2026
Cabinet Office and Tokyo government prepare for Mount Fuji eruption risk
Council members will discuss how to maintain the functions of railways, roads and communications networks, and how to secure goods transport systems.
An accident involving a government vehicle and five other cars occurred in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 23, 2026
Cabinet Office vehicle involved in crash that killed one and injured eight
The government car is believed to have plowed into an intersection in Tokyo¡¯s Minato Ward at around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, resulting in the fatal multiple-vehicle collision.
Concern about prices in Japan is at or near record highs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 26, 2025
Inflation and ¡®food situation¡¯ concerns top key Japan survey
Rising prices have not been this much of a worry since just after the 1973 oil shock.
The Cabinet Office is looking to survey private-sector initiatives aimed at preventing loneliness and isolation among seniors.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 23, 2025
Japan to study corporate efforts to prevent post-retirement loneliness
The government plans to collect and analyze how corporations support employees building relationships before retirement, then promote models that prove effective nationwide.
Damaged buildings on the burnt-down Asaichi-dori street in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, after the Jan. 1, 2024, earthquake
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2025
Japan eyeing measure to speed up disaster damage recognition
The new system is designed to dispatch personnel with damage assessment experience to affected areas promptly once a disaster occurs.
Women aspiring to enter politics attend a class at a?school?for future female politicians in Gifu Prefecture.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2025
Over half of local assemblywomen suffer harassment, survey shows
Specifically, ¡°verbal abuse¡± was cited by both male and female members as the leading form of harassment.
Among those who experienced physical abuse from their spouses or partners, 12.6% said they felt that their lives were in danger, according to the government survey conducted late last year.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 27, 2024
Record 1 in 5 in Japan report partner abuse, government survey shows
Among married couples, the rate is even higher at 1 in 4.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 13, 2019
Â鶹´«Ã½ government to conduct first national survey on child poverty
The government has started preparations for carrying out in fiscal 2020 a nationwide survey, using unified indicators, to accurately assess child poverty and related issues.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 16, 2018
Cabinet Office poster about sexual harassment draws online criticism
An attempt by the government to encourage men to take responsibility for preventing sexual harassment in the workplace has drawn an uproar online, with Twitter users saying it makes excuses for willful ignorance of the issue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 8, 2018
Â鶹´«Ã½ GDP contracted 0.6% in the first quarter of 2018, unchanged from initial estimate
The annualized 0.6 percent contraction was blamed on an unexpected surge in food prices during the winter that dampened household spending.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 2, 2018
Comments from defunct online Cabinet forum ignite debate over hate speech
Although the government warned against the use of ¡°slanderous¡± comments on a now-defunct Cabinet Office online forum, many appear to encroach upon what qualifies as hate speech.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 16, 2017
Officials deny remarks attributed to them in Kake papers
Two senior government officials deny making the smoking-gun remarks linked to them in the Kake Gakuen document leak, pitting the education ministry against Prime Minister Abe¡¯s Cabinet.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2016
Japan posts videos to prepare citizens for next big quake
Houses toppling over, fires blazing out of control, trains going off their rails and murky water rushing through the streets, sweeping cars away.
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.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 13, 2014
Japan suffers biggest economic slump since 2011 quake as tax hike bites
The April 1 consumption tax hike drove the economy into its biggest contraction since the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Cabinet Office data show.
EDITORIALS
Jul 28, 2014
Weak state secrets oversight
An expert panel¡¯s proposal to create at least two oversight bodies staffed by Japanese bureaucrats falls far short of what¡¯s needed to prevent the arbitrary designation of government information as state secrets.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2013
Tax hike backers seize on positive GDP data
Real gross domestic product rose an annualized 2.6 percent in the three months to June, bolstering the Abe administration¡¯s claim its economic policies are succeeding.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Strong wind and heavy rain forecast as tropical storm approaches Japan
Tropical Storm Chan-hom is expected to make landfall in northern Kanto between late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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