With far-right Sanae Takaichi in power, Japan’s anti-immigration forces are likely to prevail and immigration reforms may end ...

According to the IMF World Economic Outlook report, Japan’s nominal GDP — that is, unadjusted for inflation — is expected to fall 0.2%, year-on-year, to $4.23 trillion in 2023, while Germany’s is ...

Japan approved a record $730 billion budget as it ramped up spending on its aging population. Official data this year showed that Japan’s elderly population — those 65 or older — amounted to nearly a ...

Japan’s population is shrinking faster than ever, with nearly a million more deaths than births in 2024 – the steepest decline since records began in 1968. New figures released by the Ministry of ...

The U.S. population is older than ever, and that trend is accelerating. As baby boomers age and birth rates decline, the country is heading toward a demographic reality that Japan has been grappling ...

Growth in annual GDP per capita will fall by more than a full percentage point in some countries over the next 25 years ...

Eurizon strategists forecast US inflation to steadily fall to the Fed's target of 2%. They point to Japan as an example of how demographic trends can alter economies over time. Since the 1990s, ...

Japan’s already alarming demographic crisis has now hit a worrying new milestone. For the first time in the country’s history, people aged 80 and above now make up 10 per cent of the population, ...

Weeks after Takaichi’s speech, it was revealed record numbers of victims are seeking compensation for overwork in Japan.

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Yutaka Takahashi strolls around his neighborhood in Japan's capital, he sometimes wonders where all the children have gone. Sign up here. "When we were young, it seemed as if ...