Japan’s precipitous population decline shows no sign of slowing, with the nation shrinking by more than 900,000 people last year – the biggest annual drop on record, according to government data. The ...

Japan's population is in freefall, with fewer babies born, more elderly in the workforce, and a shrinking number of residents overall. The country faces a demographic crisis that policymakers fear ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...

TOKYO — The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for a ninth straight year to a record low, according to health ministry data released Thursday. The faster-than-predicted decline suggests ...

The Japanese government has issued another grim update as the window for preventing a demographic crisis continues to narrow. The country's population shrank by nearly 900,000 people in the year ...

The East Asian nation, for the 55th year in a row, has set a new record as its population of citizens aged 100 or older ...