The list goes on. The effect of all this enshortification is that, after decades building an expectation of world-class ...

Anti-immigration sentiment is growing in Japan ahead of the upcoming leadership election to replace Prime Minister Shigeru ...

Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic ...

Deaths in Japan outnumbered births by 900,000 last year, the largest population fall on record. The country’s population is down to 120 million, having declined for 16 consecutive years. Nearly 30% of ...

Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, ...

The birth rate in Japan continued to decline in the first half of this year, deepening a trend Tokyo says will be irreversible by the next decade. Asia's second-largest economy faces a severe ...

In 2024, the number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low for the ninth year in a row. With about 1.6 million deaths and 720,988 births, there were about two deaths for every new baby born.

Japan has been grappling with a serious population decline problem for many decades, and recent data suggest that the trend could be getting worse. According to government-provided data (via Reuters), ...