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Japan on April 1 launched a new agency for overseeing child policies as the government under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida struggles to reverse the country\u2019s declining birthrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Children and Families Agency, under the direct supervision of the prime minister, will tackle a wide range of challenges, including the perilously low birthrate, child abuse and poverty, as the \u201ccontrol tower\u201d in compiling policies while eliminating sectionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency, the first governmental body to be established since the Digital Agency in September 2021, brings together relevant departments from the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry as well as the Cabinet Office. Combined with people from the private sector and local governments, the agency has around 430 officials. Yumiko Watanabe, a senior bureaucrat of the welfare ministry, heads the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its launch comes at a time the number of babies born in the country last year fell to below 800,000 for the first time since record-keeping began in 1899.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n