That year, Japan had about 123 million people, and its GDP was USD3.1 trillion, the world’s second largest. The United States ...

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 recent years, the aging population has seen soaring numbers of deaths and more people reach the end of their lives with no ...

The Japanese government has rejected requests from the Muslim community to establish additional graveyards, citing cultural ...

Faced with an aging population and acute labour shortages, Japan has boosted senior employment through policy. Yet many seniors are working out of financial necessity, not choice. As demographic ...

On August 22, 2024, alongside the webinar “What Is the Demographic Emergency in East Asia?,” the Asia Society Policy Institute convened a private roundtable of experts and scholars to discuss the ...

TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Yoshihide Suga, expected to become Japan's prime minister this week, hails from Akita prefecture in the north, which leads the world's most rapidly ageing country in greying ...

Chey Tae-won, chair of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and SK Group, has doubled down on his calls for closer ...

In the 1980s, Japan was on track to become the world’s leading economy. Its rapid industrial expansion and global exports positioned it as a rising superpower. But that momentum collapsed with the ...