Ninety-two percent of Japan's population lives in urban areas, a way of living that Okada sees as unsustainable for population growth. She wants people to move out of cities and back to rural ...

Regional Market Outlook: Japan remains one of the leading markets for probiotic yogurt in Asia-Pacific, bolstered by a ...

Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could ...

Shrinking global populations threatens long-term consumption growth, posing risks to markets. Read more on how tech companies ...

Not only is growth unevenly distributed, but in so many countries, population is in decline. In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan ...

Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years.

Japan recorded its largest population decrease in history last year, with a significant drop of 861,000 residents, according to official data released on Wednesday. This demographic shift ...

The Japanese economy, long a model of prosperity and fiscal discipline, is going through a period of complex turbulence.

The spectacular story of the decline in Japan's population growth continues with that regularity in the extraordinary which has characterized the country over the past hundred years. Death rates are ...

Japan is increasingly turning to foreigners to fill gaps in its labor force as a population crunch looms ... this number by 2040 to meet its economic growth targets, the government's Japan ...

Japan shifted from an agrarian economy to an industrialized market economy in the span of a single generation in the late 19th century. With the Meiji Restoration came rapid population growth.

Not only is growth unevenly distributed, but in so many countries, population is in decline. In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan ...