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.

Too few people Japan’s population has been in decline for several years – at the last count in 2022, the population had shrunk by more than 800,000 since the previous year, to 125.4 million.

Japan’s “major earthquake” warning has put much of the country on high alert, even as some experts cast doubt on whether such an advisory is necessary or accurate.

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of Japanese women hold jobs than their American counterparts.

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million. It now ...

At his first summit with Trump, Ishiba also promised to raise Japan's investment in the U.S. to "an unprecedented amount" of $1 trillion, something that Japan will come under pressure to deliver upon.