The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899. The government data ...

Japanese 2024 births dipped below 700,000 for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday. Births dropped ...

Ninety-two percent of Japan's population lives in urban areas, a way of living that Okada sees as unsustainable for population growth. She wants people to move out of cities and back to rural ...

Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years.

Not only is growth unevenly distributed, but in so many countries, population is in decline. In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan ...

Meanwhile, another reason for population growth is the need for well remunerated labor. Of all towns and villages in Japan, the ski resort village of Akaigawa in Hokkaido had the highest rate of ...

The Japanese government has drawn up a plan to more than double foreign direct investment in the country by 2030 to 120 ...

Japan shifted from an agrarian economy to an industrialized market economy in the span of a single generation in the late 19th century. With the Meiji Restoration came rapid population growth.

But growth was uneven around the world and ... More people are dying each year than are being born, and Japan’s population declined by over 1.1 million people between 2000 and 2020. However, Japan’s ...

Not only is growth unevenly distributed, but in so many countries, population is in decline. In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan ...