The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced.

The number of babies born to Japanese parents fell below 700,000 in 2024 for the first time since records began at the end of ...

Japan’s population is shrinking faster than ever, with nearly a million more deaths than births in 2024 – the steepest decline since records began in 1968. New figures released by the Ministry of ...

Japan is on the brink of a significant demographic shift that will reshape its economy, welfare systems, and overall societal health. By the year 2050, solo households are expected to comprise 44.3 ...

Conservative Sanae Takaichi hailed a "new era" Saturday after becoming head of Japan's ruling party, putting her on course to ...

KKR & Co. says Japan’s aging population presents opportunities to invest in areas that tap artificial intelligence and other ...

Japan boasts world’s oldest population, Hong Kong projected to top global ranking by 2050, while Italy, currently 3rd, to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

Japan’s overall population fell from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122 million today but Japan’s working age population peaked in 1995. If we discount the economic bubble then the real estate collapse from ...

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