Familiar alarm bells sounded in Japan this month as year-end population figures and new projections combined to paint an uncertain future for Asia's No. 2 economy. Japan's total population stood at ...

TOKYO, June 3 (Reuters) - Japan recorded a record low number of births in 2021, prompting the biggest ever natural decline in the population, government data showed on Friday. There were 811,604 ...

After hovering around zero growth in the late 2000s, Japan’s population has been shrinking since 2010, with the decline accelerating in recent years. Breaking its own record every year for the last 10 ...

Japan’s prime minister is sounding the alarm on his country’s shrinking population and calling for measures to help one of the world’s oldest societies replenish its citizen base. "Our nation is on ...

It’s no secret Japan has the world’s most rapidly declining population. Last year less than 800,000 babies were born, resulting in a rapid decline that experts hadn’t predicted until 2030. Japan has ...

Experts warn that the United States may be following Japan’s worrying population decline after the Asian nation-state released new shocking data. Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social ...

AS JAPAN’S POPULATION continues to get older, its youngest adults will be younger in 2022. The legal age of majority will drop from 20 to 18 years old, starting in April, in accordance with an ...