East Asia's youth are increasingly disappointed with traditional politics, leading to diverse patterns of political disengagement across the region. In Japan, young people are turning away from ...

IDA has been a committed partner in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region for over six decades. Its support has helped countries achieve strong and stable growth that has lifted hundreds of millions ...

People's decision to get married later and ... With better understanding of the population dynamics of East Asia, and learning from the experiences of countries with low fertility rates, we ...

Firecrackers. TikTok. Anime. K-pop. Two of the largest world economies. Some of the longest-lasting civilizations. A quarter of the world population. East Asia is confronting some of the world’s most ...

The project trains families and community volunteers in homecare for older people. For more details, download Community based homecare for older people in South East Asia (745kb). In March 2009, ...

The 36th anniversary of Tiananmen Square has passed, marking another year in which China and the majority of East Asia’s political economy remain firmly authoritarian.

Even more surprisingly, the team reported that present-day people living on the islands ... there are a great many unclassified Homo fossils from eastern Asia, and it’s not obvious how many ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and ...

TOKYO -- Military spending in East Asia jumped 7.8% on the year to $433 billion in 2024, a new report shows, as countries continued to enhance war-fighting capabilities amid heightening tensions ...

One of the most pressing is the need to develop a new generation of public health leaders across South-east Asia – people who can lead research and development, champion vaccine production and ...

people of East Asia stuck to only the most basic tools that remained unchanged for thousands of years. Quina scrapers are typically quite thick and asymmetrical, with a broad and sharp working ...