Japan’s precipitous population decline shows no sign of slowing, with the nation shrinking by more than 900,000 people last ...

Japan and some of its East Asian neighbours frequently make headlines about population concerns, even as birth rates are now ...

The Tokyo region remains the only area to record slight population growth, rising by 0.13%. In contrast, all other ...

The country's total fertility rate fell to 1.15 in 2024 from 1.2 the previous year, despite extensive local and central ...

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has issued a stark warning on X (formerly Twitter), stating that Japan could lose ...

Japan saw nearly 1 million more deaths than births in 2024, marking the country’s steepest single-year population decline ...

Japan recorded its largest-ever population decline last year with nearly one million more people died than the number of ...

Japan faces a severe population crisis with nearly a million more deaths than births this year. Elon Musk warns this trend, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", as birth rates continue to plummet.

According to Japan's Health Ministry, the population will shrink from 128 million to below 100 million by 2050. By then, Japan is expected to lose citizens at a rate of 900,000 per year.

When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like ...

Japan’s total population was 125.41 million, down just over half a million people from a year earlier, and there was a 10.7% jump in foreign residents with addresses registered in Japan, the ...