Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's ...

The birth rate plummeted for the ninth consecutive year with more than two deaths for every baby born in 2024. Aware that to ...

To address the country's rapidly declining birthrate Japan's health ministry is all set to eliminate out-of-pocket payments ...

Working in Japan as a full-time employee (seishain) usually comes with a sense of security—stable hours, regular pay, and ...

In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in the country, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline in child births.

With birth rates falling and immigration facing political pushback, what does that mean for future economic growth and equity ...