ANALYSIS: Before the election, Labor promised policies to lift the declining birthrate, but there is little evidence they will actually work.

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 author is a Principal of the Saemal Saemomjit School Nothing escapes the cycle of birth, growth, decay and death. The ...

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

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WASHINGTON - The policy chief of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on April 28 called on US President Donald Trump to reconsider his plans for reciprocal tariffs, saying they could ...

Plummeting birth rates and ageing population leave closed-off country 'no choice' but to admit foreigners, but tensions are growing with newly arrived Muslims ...

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.

For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have been ... through notification of birth, adoption or marriage, they are legally and symbolically part of the family and share a surname. Invoking ...