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 ...

The megacity is positioned ahead of the Japanese capital, and the UN announces bad news for the population of Japan in the ...

July 26 (UPI) --Japan on Wednesday said the nation in 2022 reported its largest yearly population decline since the start of the government's count in 1968 as birth rates dropped and the foreign ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s precipitous population decline shows no sign of slowing, with the nation shrinking by more than 900,000 people last year – the biggest annual drop on record, according to ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan has called population decline the country’s “biggest problem” and set out an action plan for her ministers to follow in hopes of tackling the issue.

Japan's population dropped by more than 800,000 nationals in 2022, the 14th consecutive year of contraction the country has experienced. Japan's population has been in steady decline since 2008. And ...

The population of non-Japanese residents in 10 prefectures has more than doubled over the past decade, data compiled by Kyodo ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s population declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, ...

Japan’s population crisis continues to get worse by the year. New data released on Wednesday by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reveals that the number of Japanese residents fell by more than 800 ...

The Japanese government said on Friday that the number of My Number national identification cards issued has surpassed 100 ...