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An 11-year-old Turkish girl was mistakenly expelled from her elementary school here last fall after losing her residency ...

Tokyo is considering a subsidy for epidural childbirths in the 2025 fiscal year in an attempt to reverse the city’s declining birthrate. Japan’s birthrate, which is defined as the average ...