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 ...

This bustling city with a population of 37 million across the ... of the latest livability indexes speak for themselves. In 2022, Tokyo ranked second on Global Finance Magazine’s Best Cities ...

Japan's population has dwindled for 15 consecutive ... However, this follows a nearly 6 percent drop from 2022 to 2023. Japan's demographic woes are shared by South Korea, China, and Taiwan ...

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 ...