The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899. The government data ...

Read More: Why Women in Asia Are Having Fewer Babies A diminishing population poses multiple challenges for the country ... Still, it’s unclear if Japan can continue to accommodate the same ...

Japan's aging population and declining birth rate pose a challenge for Asia's second-largest economy, threatening to strain its social welfare system. These trends have driven both the national ...

Structural population problems are a challenge for any one leader to resolve, but the future fallout will be borne by all. It wasn't so long ago that the perceived threat of Japan's industrial ...

Depopulation in Japan’s countryside shows biodiversity declines even when people leave, urging smarter land use to protect ...

Japan’s challenges are particularly severe, given that the entire baby-boom population is passing the 75-year milestone in just three years (starting in 2022 and ending in 2025) and the country’s ...

Recent research suggests that prosperity does not inevitably lead to fewer children, and that rising female earnings are ...

The findings, published in Science Advances in April 2024, challenge the longstanding belief that there were two main ...

contributing to the increase in empty houses The issue of empty houses in Japan is a result of declining population due to low birth rates and aging. This is similar to the reasons for the ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AFP) — Shigeru Ishiba, who became Japan's prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday, will face five key challenges in the job ... Japan has the world's oldest ...