TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday he would take measures to make it easier for men to take time off to take care of new-born babies, as the country’s population ages and shrinks rapidly.
Suga also told a meeting on social security reforms that he planned to unveil steps by the end of the year towards realising insurance coverage for fertility treatment.
(Reporting by Yoshifumi Takemoto, writing by Kiyoshi Takenaka; editing by John Stonestreet)
