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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The biggest demographic shifts taking place in Japan are the country’s aging population and the surge in the number of foreign residents, and there are actually a few age-related quirks involved in ...

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

Japan’s population crisis continues to get worse by the year. New data released on Wednesday by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reveals that the number of Japanese residents fell by more than 800 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan’s population stood at ...

Japan’s population as of Oct. 1 declined slightly from a year earlier, a national census showed on Tuesday, fueling concerns that a shrinking population could threaten the long-term health of the ...