Japan commemorated its "Respect for the Aged Day" earlier this week, with the national holiday underscoring a somewhat problematic fact — the country has a record number of elderly citizens to ...

The latest official demographic data show opposite trends in the two East Asian countries. Despite government measures and ...

Once a key enabler of prefectural growth, Japan’s regional banks are now under mounting pressure from changing demographics ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 27, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The world's population may have recently exceeded eight billion, but it's a deceptive ...

Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could spread through East Asia and Europe as global fertility rates fall—according ...

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The number of newborns dropped 2.1 per cent from a year earlier to about 706,000. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Japan recently broke from its G7 siblings and upheld its ban on same-sex marriage. The Tokyo court affirmed the nation's civil code limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. It was the first and only ...