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 ...

The number of elderly people in Japan surged by 20,000 from September 2023 to 36.25 million, accounting for a record high 29.3 percent of the population, government figures showed. The Ministry of ...

Japan is expected to spend $6.3 billion in an effort to thwart the economic impact of President Trump’s tariffs. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Tuesday lauded the country’s ...

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.

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 ...