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 ...

As tremors shook the ground in parts of western Japan last Thursday, local and national government bodies leapt into action. Meteorologists gathered and issued a temporary tsunami advisory.

You can get in touch with Micah by emailing m.mccartney@newsweek.com. Japan is increasingly turning to foreigners to fill gaps in its labor force as a population crunch looms. In 2022, individuals ...

A rumor circulating in Hong Kong that a huge earthquake and tsunami will hit Japan this summer led to such a sharp drop in flight bookings that one airline was forced to reduce its services to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.