The total number of births in Japan this year is expected to come in below 670,000—far fewer than the official forecasts put ...

By 2050, Japan’s youth will inherit a transformed country, reshaped by population decline, longer lives and unprecedented ...

The Japanese island of Etajima's oyster industry relies almost entirely on foreign workers due to its aging population.

Japan, already a world leader in pro-natal policy, must dramatically boost child allowances to make a difference, an analyst ...

Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic ...

Japan is moving toward a 10 percent foreign population far faster than official projections, with dozens of municipalities already crossing the threshold and one village reporting that more than a ...

Japan faces record-low births in 2025 as Tokyo loses title of world’s most populous city, deepening demographic crisis ...

Japan is currently grappling with a population crisis - as recent government data showed that the country has registered a decline of over half a million (531,700) people in 2023. The number of births ...

Japan’s population crisis is accelerating, with the number of nationals falling by more than 800,000 in the past year – echoing similar trends seen in other East Asian countries. As of January 1 this ...

Japan's population has fallen by nearly 1 million people in the past five years, the first registered decline in the country's populace since 1920. New census figures issued on Friday show that ...

Japan’s birthrate has fallen to a new record low, marking a ninth consecutive year of decline, according to official figures released on Thursday by the health ministry. In 2024, the number of babies ...