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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children play in a nursery school in Koga city, Fukuoka prefecture on April 16, 2020. - Toshiro Kubo/he Yomiuri Shimbun/AP/File ...

Japan's population is declining at record speed while the number of foreign nationals residing in the country has risen to a record high, according to government data released Wednesday. The data show ...

As concentration of the population in the Tokyo area is ongoing, addressing the situation remains a challenge for the country ...

Japan's latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan's population stood at 127.1 million ...