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.

In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...

President Trump said his administration had made “big progress” with Japan on negotiations for a one-for-one trade deal Wednesday — with the Asian nation the first of dozens expected to ...

Famous across Japan as a holiday destination and for its unique breed of wild horses, Yonaguni is a tiny outpost jutting out of the East China Sea with a population of just 1,700 people.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

One detail, seemingly unnoticed by those in the room, is that the gift was made in China, the focal point for Trump's sweeping trade war that has engulfed Japan and dozens of other countries ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European defence companies say Japan has accelerated its opening to non-American suppliers of military ...

This one, Kappy, who’s posing in T editor in chief Hanya Yanagihara’s office, was created by the Saitama, Japan-based 3-D illustrator Ryogo Toyoda and modeled on kappa, a menacing Japanese ...