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During a two-day meeting in Aomori Prefecture, governors called for the establishment of a government agency-level control ...
The Trump effect—embodied in both American policy and its global ideological footprint—has found fertile ground in Japan’s ...
Yet a turning point in human history is underway. According to UN projections, the number of people in 85 countries will be shrinking by 2050, mostly in Europe and Asia. By 2100, the human population ...
Aside from the question of growth, it remains unclear whether policymakers can reorient the country’s future trajectory ...
Fertility rates (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) have dropped below replacement rates of 2.1 ...
The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...
Japanese prefectural governors on Wednesday urged the central government to give top priority to measures against escalating ...
Biodiversity continued to decrease in most of the areas we studied, irrespective of population increase or decrease. Only ...
Japan's leader Shigeru Ishiba faces mounting political pressure as his ruling coalition is set to lose its majority in the ...
A fringe far-right populist party Sanseito was one of the biggest winners in the weekend's upper house election, attracting ...
CheapInsurance.com reports the U.S. can learn from Japan's aging population solutions, from eldercare to inclusive community design, to better adapt.
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 ...