This study analyzes what adult children will do for their parents if they become frail and need long-term care. Descriptive statistics show that about 30 percent of adult children living separately from their parents provide long-term in-home care, which suggests that a significant number of...

Do wives with high-earning husbands tend to choose to be full-time housewives? Are the households in which both spouses earn high incomes increasing? This article answers these questions. It also shows what kinds of impacts such changes in household income composition are having on income...

The "Nakasone Tax Reform," the objective of which was the most drastic tax reform since the Shoup Tax Reform Recommendations of 1949, overcame the setback of the rejection of the sales tax proposal in the 108th Regular Session of the Diet and ended in the 109th Regular Session, having...