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Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula Area: Approximately 151,000 square miles, slightly smaller than California. Natural [...]

Japan is made up of about 3,000 islands but the four largest and most important are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. Tokyo is the capital city. It has a population […]

The population of children under age 15 in Japan declined for the 22nd straight year, according to statistics for 2002 released May 4 by the Ministry of Public Management, Home […]

Population statistics released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Feb. 27, found that one in 22 marriages registered in 2000, or 4.5% of the total, was a so-called [...]

Facts and figures on the world' graying population from the U.N. Population Division: * World population in 2000 was 6 billion. It is projected to grow to 10 billion by [...]

Japanese economists are concerned about the falling birth rate, which is one of the lowest in the world. The average Japanese women is expected to have 1.39 children, which could lead to a dramatic population fall from a predicted 126 million by 2007 to just over 60 million by the year 3000. Declining birth rates are attributed to people getting married older and the pressure of working women, who tend to marry around 26 years of age in 1998, compared with 24 years of age during the 1970s. The government sees the provision of better child care as a solution to improving birth rates.

Japan leads the world in TV-watching hours, according to a Eurodata TV survey. The Japanese watch an average of four hours of TV per day. Japan edged out Mexico by [...]

The number of Japanese children aged 14 and under has dropped to 15.5% of the population, from 35% in 1955. By 2010 Japan could have proportionately the smallest workforce and [...]

Japan's aging population may influence the flow of products into Japan. Also, the imbalance in the country's demographics may have internal economic implications. A census conducted in 1995 reveals that the country's population experienced a 1.6% population growth from 1990 to 1995 - a report that also signalled concern over whether the small base of young people can support a large pension burden despite the dense population and stable economic situation.

TOKYO--Cars from the U.S. have recently increased their share of the imported auto market in Japan thanks to a more welcoming view of them by Japanese consumers. A 1994 study [...]

The Japanese continue to have the longest lifespans in the world. This seems unbelievable because many Japanese smoke and drink. A large number of Japanese usually do so late into the evening in restaurants or bars, where they unwind after several days of stress in the workplace. Japanese women live to 82.51 years on the average, while Japanese men average 76.25 years. The increase in longevity could be due to changes in Japan's diet and improvements in the country's living standards.

At the close of Japan's notoriously long workday, the young and the hip flock to the 'bourbon bars' of Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi District, crowding in among the tables for the [...]

JAPAN'S young women, like their sisters in other rich countries before them, are now marrying later, putting off having their first child longer and then choosing to have fewer children [...]