The number of babies born in Japan in 2024 fell to a record low of 686,061, marking the first time the figure has dipped below 700,000 since statistic keeping began in 1899, the health ministry ...

Policymakers are worried about Japan's future as the population plummets.

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who killed and dismembered nine Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and murdered.

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

Japan’s government faces pressure to curtail debt-fueled spending that some argue has staved off populist waves.

Japan’s ‘Baba Vanga’ warns of 2025 event that could lead to devastation — and now people are canceling their summer trips ...

The number of newborns in Japan is decreasing faster than projected, with the number of annual births falling to another record low last year, according to government data released Wednesday.

Japan's exports fell in May for the first time in eight months as big automakers like Toyota were hit by sweeping U.S. tariffs, and the failure of Tokyo to clinch a trade deal this week will ...

Japan executes by hanging ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered 9 Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged for the murders of eight women and one man whose body parts he concealed in his small apartment.

Japan Will Spend $6.3 Billion to Shield Its Economy From Trump’s Tariffs Lawmakers approved a plan to help companies and consumers as officials bargain in Washington for relief from debilitating ...

Can the $7,000 mini EV jumpstart sales in Japan? Japanese startup, KG Motors, is charging up Japan’s electric vehicle market with small, affordable “mobility robots.” ...

Japan, however, has managed to escape a fiscal crisis of the kind Greece witnessed in 2009 because domestic investors hold most of its sovereign debt and it remains a major creditor to other ...