Okinawa was the only prefecture to record a population increase. Even Tokyo suffered a population drop, its first in 26 years. An internal affairs ministry official who oversaw the population ...

The population stood at 13,988,129 as of Jan. 1, 2022, down 48,592 from the same day the previous year, metropolitan officials said on Jan. 31. The last time that Tokyo reported a decrease in ...

(FILES) This file photo taken on November 22, 2024 shows bags of rice stacked in a supermarket in central Tokyo. The Japanese ... especially as the ageing population shrinks.

TOKYO: There is no use trying to hide it: The great inflection point has finally arrived. Japan’s population of traffic lights, in lagging correlation with its human population, has flipped from ...