Population

When it comes to public safety and terrorism in Japan, nobody probably knows the situation better than Takaji Kunimatsu. The former chief of the National Police Agency dealt with a number of high-profile crimes during his career, including the 1972 Asama Sanso Incident, a hostage ...

Boutique advisers specializing in micro mergers and acquisitions for mostly family-run firms are enjoying a boom as the aging, shrinking population puts the squeeze on Japan's small business landscape. There are no industrywide figures for deals between ¥500 million and ¥1 billion, but boutique advisers ...

Despite the central government's initiatives to reinvigorate regional economies and advance decentralization, municipalities across Japan are struggling to stem a population outflow, most prominently to Tokyo. Last Friday the Cabinet Office decided to disburse around ¥55.64 billion to 609 regional governments in an initial tranche ...

A government advisory panel on Monday began deliberations on limiting the establishment of new universities in the Tokyo area as part of the effort to prevent further population loss in regional areas. The panel, which consists of business people, politicians and a head of a ...

There will be 1.23 million people age 20, the nation's legal age of adulthood, on New Year's Day 2017, up 20,000 from a year earlier, the government said Saturday. But the percentage of new adults within the country's population of 126.86 million is just 0.97 ...

Births in Japan this year are expected to slip below 1 million for the first time on record, government figures reveal.

In some of Asia's biggest economies, young adults are living longer with their parents as they struggle to strike out on their own. The aging of the Japanese and South Korean societies, and the significant slowdown in their economic growth rates, are contributing to a ...

Send us your construction workers, your care givers, your store clerks — but for a limited time only. That's the message from Japan, where the number of foreign workers, though still relatively small, has nearly doubled over the past eight years, and Prime Minister Shinzo ...

The population stood at 127,094,745 as of Oct. 1, 2015, down 0.8 percent from the previous census.

A former coal-mining town in Hokkaido is taking unprecedented measures to combat its biggest challenge: a devastating shrinking of its population. Its success could decide the future for hundreds of other local governments waging the same battle for survival. Since its peak in the post-war ...