Japan’s birth rate has hit a new record low — just 720,988 births in 2024, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline. The consequences? A shrinking workforce, rising social security costs and a ...

Japan’s birth rate has hit a new record low — just 720,988 births in 2024, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline. The consequences? A shrinking workforce, rising social security costs and a ...

Births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time. This photo shows parents walking with their children in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 16, 2025. (Mainichi/Takuma Nakamura) The "low ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announces "other-dimensional" measures to tackle the declining birth rate at a news conference in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Jan. 4, 2023. (Pool photo) There's no end in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to include steps to raise the birth rate, such easier access to childcare and tax incentives, in a package of reforms due this month to tackle the biggest bottleneck to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to include steps to raise the birth rate, such as easier access to childcare and tax incentives, in a package of reforms due this month to tackle the biggest bottleneck ...

Japanese champion runner Tomomi Bitoh completed a 170-kilometer race in the Himalayas last November, and immediately made a beeline for a Tokyo clinic to begin freezing her eggs, hoping to keep alive ...

TOKYO -- Married women in Tokyo give birth to more babies than the national average, but the city's total fertility rate has dropped to the lowest level among Japan's 47 prefectures. This decline is ...