The country's total fertility rate fell to 1.15 in 2024 from 1.2 the previous year, despite extensive local and central ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

Japan’s precipitous population decline shows no sign of slowing, with the nation shrinking by more than 900,000 people last ...

The population of Japanese nationals fell by a record amount -- more than 900,000 people -- in 2024, official data showed, as ...

The population of Japanese nationals fell by a record amount – more than 900,000 – in 2024, official data showed, as the ...

Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years.

Japan's real wages fell in June for the sixth consecutive month as inflation continued to outpace pay growth, government data ...

One of Japan’s largest producers of baby food is to close its business as inflation bites and births in its home market plunge to the lowest level since records began. Kewpie, producer of the ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, centre, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), waves to voters during his campaign tour for the upper house election in Yokohama, Japan, on ...

Major central banks hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation, but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. Food inflation, especially rice prices, is a major factor behind the rise ...

It has stayed put despite headline and core inflation running above its target of 2% since April 2022, and despite headline inflation's two-year high of 4% in January. So-called "core-core ...

Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7 ...