Japan’s population drops to record low as government looks to tackle birthrate issue - Japan’s population fell for the 14th straight year amid concerns over the ageing population ...

Japan’s population contracted by half a million last year, underscoring the country’s mounting challenges in tackling labor shortages and financing its social security system with a shrinking tax base ...

ANKARA – Japan's already dwindling population has posted its largest annual decline on record, falling by 898,000 people as ...

The rate of population decline and the actual number by which the Japanese population decreased as of Oct. 1, 2021, were the largest since 1950 when comparable statistics first began to be gathered.

Japan’s population decline is following the worst-case scenario, prompting the government to devise urgent policies to incentivize more births. For all the focus on rising budgets and ...

18, Respect-for-the-Aged Day, show that those aged 80 and older for the first time represent 10 percent of the population. An estimated 36.23 million people in Japan were aged 65 or older as of Sept.