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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Another challenge facing the country is its ageing population caused by chronically low birth rates and a cautious approach to immigration. Japan is one of the world's oldest societies ...

(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 ...