Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

The government has been implementing various initiatives to stop the decline in the population, including measures against the low birth rate and regional revitalization. However, it cannot be said ...

Last year, one of Japan’s biggest nappy manufacturers made an announcement: Oji Holdings said it was going to stop making ...

Sanae Takaichi favours strict curbs on foreign workers in sectors facing labour shortage though the country’s population is ...

Japan faces a demographic time bomb with an ageing population and falling birthrates but new PM Sanae Takaichi's anti-immigrant positions will not help the nation's economy, writes Adam Simpson.

Deaths exceeded births in Taiwan for the 21st straight month, according to newly released government statistics, underscoring ...

Share prices have soared recently in Tokyo on hopes that conservative Japanese lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be Japan’s first female prime ...

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.

TOKYO—A change of guard in Japan’s ruling party could complicate matters for the central bank as it looks to keep raising interest rates. Sanae Takaichi, the new head of the Liberal Democratic Party, ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” in a state with the world’s fourth largest economy, dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from ...