Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could ...

Japan must stop being overly optimistic about how quickly its population is going to shrink, economists have warned, as ...

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

Japanese 2024 births dipped below 700,000 for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday. Births dropped ...

Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years. Last year ...

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 ...

But the issue of Japan's shrinking population is not a recent phenomenon. Since the 1990s, successive Japanese governments have been aware that the population would start to decline and tried to ...

In 2021, Japan recorded its lowest number of births in more than a century, according to government data released Friday. The figure is sure to stoke anxieties over the ongoing implications of ...

Its solutions to combating this decline may be significant for the rest of the world. So, too, may its failures. The reasons that Japan’s rural population is shrinking and aging mirror those in ...

Japan is facing a population collapse that threatens its ... Coupled with a strict immigration policy, the nation's numbers are on the decline, and they're about to reach freefall.

(Perhaps by then we would be living underwater). Neither current nor projected population decline is unique to Japan. Many East Asian societies are forecast to encounter rapid decline over the ...