Births in Japan fell for the ninth-consecutive year last year, according to Health Ministry data released Thursday—the lowest since records began 125 years ago. Japan's population has dwindled for 15 ...

Japan's population fell to a record low in 2024 following a steep decline in the birth rate, according to government data. The population of the world's fourth-largest economy fell to 120.3 million as ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...

Calling Japan a global ‘Depopulation Vanguard Country’, researchers expect depopulation and biodiversity losses to spread across East Asia and Europe Japan’s declining population in agricultural ...

Japan logged its fewest births on record last year and more than twice as many deaths, according to a new government report, with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba calling it "a quiet emergency." Newsweek ...

In 2024, the number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low for the ninth year in a row. With about 1.6 million deaths and 720,988 births, there were about two deaths for every new baby born.

Japan’s new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, has made quite a start. She’s sparked a major spat with China over Taiwan; told us that, like her idol Margaret Thatcher, she apparently gets by on minimal ...