The Japanese capital is rolling out subsidies for epidurals in a country where cost is a barrier and women are often encouraged to endure the pain of delivery.

Japan's oldest person is 114-year-old Shigeko Kagawa in the Nara region near Kyoto. She remained active past 80 years old as an obstetrician-gynecologist and a general doctor, according to the ...

Japan may ease rules on the sale of the "morning-after pill" so it can be bought without a prescription as early as next year, Kyodo news agency said on Thursday, a reform that would bring Japan in ...