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ONE OF THE MANY DISORIENTING feelings that eventually hit you once you arrive in Japan--or at least for people who think about demographics for a living--is the lack of young [...]

Japan faces a bleak economic future due to its rising debt and number of elderly citizens while its population and labor force shrink. Japanese debt is expected to rise to 222.3% of gross national product by 2014, while its population is projected to shrink to 100 million by 2050.

With falling fertility rates and increasing life expectancy, all the Asian countries are going through a demographic transition in which the proportion of elderly persons is increasing. However, different Asian [...]

1. Aging of Japanese Population Located between latitudes 20 and 45 degrees north, most of Japan belongs to the North Temperate Zone. Although liable to natural disasters such as typhoons [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Comment based on the 'Culture' page in the previous issue, title 'Japanese Desire a Big Family' [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'You have only one kid!' 'Did you say you had [...]

Several experts doubt that immigration can solve the low birthrate problem in Europe. Scholar Nicolas Eberstadt says that migrants to Europe are uneducated and do not have the skills that would drive the kind of innovation the European dynamic economy needs. Population trends in Japan are also discussed.

The Japanese population is ageing at a rate unprecedented in recorded world history. According to statistics released in March 2007 by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), Japanese [...]

Japanese baby boomers are likely to start retiring from 2007. The implication is that these people will receive substantial part of their savings. The likely changes in consumption trends in Japan because of such savings are discussed.

Official Name: Japan Location: Japan is an island chain in eastern Asia between the western Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula Area: 145,882 square [...]

For centuries, Japan's elderly have obeyed the societal dictum "When one gets old, be of service to one's children" and surrendered their life savings to sons and daughters as death […]

On the macroeconomic side it is generally agreed that the Japanese economy has finally emerged from the extended downslide, although there are still areas of weakness in the overall economy. [...]

An analysis of Japan's low birthrate and aging population, the two trends that is affecting the Japanese economy is discussed. The two scenario's set by the Annual Report for JapanEs economy between 2011 and 2020 in order to achieve the growth is presented.

Could being born in a year deemed unlucky wind up a self-fulfilling prophecy? That may be what befell Japanese girls born in 19GB, otherwise known as a year of the [...]

Japan Japn's 123 million people buy the second largest quantity of goods and services in the world. The seventh most populous nation in the world, its total land area, however, [...]

THE DISCRIMINATED FINGERS: THE KOREAN MINORITY IN JAPAN The Japanese prosperity continues unabated, prominently symbolized by an unprecedented trade surplus and the supremacy of the yen. Prime Minister Nakasone enjoys [...]