The 2004 reform of Japan's pension system presents a paradox in that most of the Japanese public is still skeptical of the pension system's sustainability, while economists abroad and major ...

Drastic changes in the national pension system are in the cards under plans ... burden of an expanding group of pensioners. Everyone in Japan between the ages of 20 and 59 is required to pay ...

foreign nationals who leave Japan before contributing for at least 10 years cannot receive pension benefits, meaning they may simply lose the money they have contributed to the pension system.

It is probably time to rethink Japan's pension system, designed as it was for an era when full-time homemakers were the norm. The labor ministry is moving to abolish the so-called "1.06-million ...

Japan plans to have a wider range of part ... The rule changes will be included in legislation to reform the country's public pension system to be submitted to the ordinary parliamentary session ...

Bitcoin journalist and financial analyst based in London. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the world's largest pension portfolios, has recently shown interest in exploring bitcoin.