NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports on what President Trump discussed in his wide-ranging press conference with the prime ...

During the COVID pandemic, breast cancer screening participation rates declined worldwide. However, in Japan, nationwide ...

Days after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, Japan's then-prime minister Shinzo Abe rushed to deliver him a gold-plated ...

Japanese nominal wages rose at the fastest pace in nearly three decades, supporting the Bank of Japan’s latest rate hike ...

Japan leads the world in per capita sales of adult diapers. Japan’s population is getting so old that one major diaper manufacturer is now making products only for adults, not for babies. Japan’s ...

The stillbirth rate in Europe has been steadily improving over the last few decades, but there are some exceptions. In ...

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up slightly in January, government data showed Friday, supporting ...

Fertility rates have fallen everywhere outside of sub-Saharan Africa. And they have fallen faster, and dropped even further, ...

In Finland, the fertility rate dropped to 1.32 children per woman in 2022, according to Statistics Finland. With a population ...

South Korea has experienced its first rise in birthrate in nearly a decade, with 242,334 babies born in 2024, a 3.1% increase ...

South Korea's births ticked upward in 2024 for the first time in nine years, according to Seoul earlier this week, but the ...