The impact is especially pronounced in Japan, which the United Nations has classified as a " super-aged" society —meaning at ...

Japan’s population is shrinking faster than ever, with nearly a million more deaths than births in 2024 – the steepest decline since records began in 1968. New figures released by the Ministry of ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million. It now ...

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

The Japanese government has set up a new organization headed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to tackle the country's population crisis, holding its first meeting with relevant ministers. The new ...

TOKYO (AP) — Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, criticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population. As ...

Residents in the northern region of Akita are living in fear after dozens of assaults on humans. Riot police and the army ...