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.

Japan stopped using the MMR vaccine seven years ago - virtually the only developed nation to turn its back on the jab. Government health chiefs claim a four-year experiment with it has had serious ...

You can get in touch with Micah by emailing m.mccartney@newsweek.com. Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low ...

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 ...

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 ...