He said Japan will calmly assess its options before deciding on the most effective course of action. Expert: Japan's GDP will shrink nearly 0.6%.

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of Japanese women hold jobs than their American counterparts.

Japan offers community-based initiatives to combat population decline 03:16. Japan's population is declining at record speed while the number of foreign nationals residing in the country has risen ...

Japan is the only nation where married couples must use the same surname. Critics say it violates women's rights and, unless the rule is scrapped, all Japanese could be surnamed Sato in 500 years.

Japan’s government faces pressure to curtail debt-fueled spending that some argue has staved off populist waves. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan, which has the ...

Japan did see a rise in youth unemployment (ages 15-24) in the 1990s, but that rise has since been reversed. Here, via the World Bank, are International Labor Organization estimates of youth ...

She’s Baba “Manga.” A Japanese graphic novel artist and psychic has foretold of a major disaster that’ll befall Japan in 2025 — and people are so spooked they’re canceling their summer ...

Japan’s government on Friday asked a court to order the dissolution of the Unification Church branch in Japan following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.

Japan has taken in hundreds of Ukrainians. The welcome for others has been less warm The Japanese government has given Ukrainians residency and work permits for up to a year.

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

Inspired by this, Shoriki established Japan’s first professional baseball team, the Great Tokyo Baseball Club. This team toured the U.S. in 1935, playing against colleges and minor league squads. When ...

Japan has carried out F-35B trials on the Izumo-class ships twice, with Izumo carrying out a trial earlier in 2021. On both occasions, the trials used U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs and non-JASDF pilots.