Growth in annual GDP per capita will fall by more than a full percentage point in some countries over the next 25 years ...

With far-right Sanae Takaichi in power, Japan’s anti-immigration forces are likely to prevail and immigration reforms may end ...

Japan approved a record $730 billion budget as it ramped up spending on its aging population. Official data this year showed that Japan’s elderly population — those 65 or older — amounted to nearly a ...

Eurizon strategists forecast US inflation to steadily fall to the Fed's target of 2%. They point to Japan as an example of how demographic trends can alter economies over time. Since the 1990s, ...

Japan’s overall population fell from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122 million today but Japan’s working age population peaked in 1995. If we discount the economic bubble then the real estate collapse from ...

The U.S. population is older than ever, and that trend is accelerating. As baby boomers age and birth rates decline, the country is heading toward a demographic reality that Japan has been grappling ...

Their passionate chants of “jasso, joyasa” (meaning “evil, be gone”) echoed through a ceder forest of the northern Japan’s Iwate region. Japan's "Sominsai" festival is the latest tradition impacted by ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Yutaka Takahashi strolls around his neighborhood in Japan's capital, he sometimes wonders where all the children have gone. Sign up here. "When we were young, it seemed as if ...

Japan’s already alarming demographic crisis has now hit a worrying new milestone. For the first time in the country’s history, people aged 80 and above now make up 10 per cent of the population, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...