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 ...

Changes in Tokyo’s population and the soaring number of high-rise buildings over the past 10 years prompted the metropolitan government to begin revising its damage estimate for a major quake ...

Beginning this month, the city government of Tokyo is offering its employees a four-day workweek, hoping to increase the population and create a healthier work-life balance in a country notorious for ...

Japan is facing a population crisis—so Tokyo, its largest city, will try to solve the problem with something new: a four-day workweek. Starting in April, the Tokyo Metropolitan government ...

(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.