Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's ...

The birth rate plummeted for the ninth consecutive year with more than two deaths for every baby born in 2024. Aware that to ...

To address the country's rapidly declining birthrate Japan's health ministry is all set to eliminate out-of-pocket payments ...

As the country faces the world’s lowest fertility rate, young adults’ attitudes are shifting about having children out of ...

In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in the country, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline in child births.

Japan considers making childbirth free to reverse dwindling birth rate - Government provides a subsidy for each birth but ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - The United States government outlined new policy changes impacting international students everywhere, including those who lost their legal status at Texas A&M.

WASHINGTON — The policy chief of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday called on US President Donald J. Trump to reconsider his plans for reciprocal tariffs, saying they could negatively ...

Plummeting birth rates and ageing population leave closed-off country 'no choice' but to admit foreigners, but tensions are growing with newly arrived Muslims ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.