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Japan's population fell by more than a half-million people as the country's efforts to shore up its dwindling birthrate come up short. Japan has 512,000 fewer people this year than [...]

When America is under stress, as is happening right now with debates about where to pare the budget, we sometimes trample the least powerful and most vulnerable among us. So [...]

Japan, struggling to deal with a falling birth rate and an aging population, said people 65 or older accounted for 21 percent of the total population in 2005, the world's […]

Japan's population of 127.6 million people has peaked and will start shrinking as early as next year, a year ahead of previous projections, the Health Ministry said. It said that […]

The number of Japanese who have reached 100 has doubled in five years in the world's longest-living nation, the government said. At the end of September, 20,561 Japanese were 100 […]

Using marble friezes, colorful tiles, ubiquitous elevators and reputedly earthquake-proof design, the builders of the Oedo-sen, Tokyo's newest subway line and the pride of the system, would seem to have […]

This town an hour outside of Tokyo, unremarkable except for its sprinkling of Chinese and Southeast Asians, could soon be known as a forerunner of Japan's 21st-century immigration boom. Shrinking […]