The figures follow trends worldwide, but especially in East Asia, where Japan, South Korea and other nations have seen their ...

Japan's infrastructure ministry is developing a system that combines administrative information held by local governments to detect vacant houses using artificial intelligence. Based on ...

The case of Japan presents an even bleaker picture of a country that is grappling with the problem of population decline.

Japan’s prime minister picked out three priorities for 2025. But with a minority government, he may be forced to follow the ...

A top Civil Affairs Ministry official stressed new reforms must be rolled out over the next decade to be effective.

As anyone who’s ever looked into the prospect of studying abroad at anything beyond the idle daydream level can attest, it’s not cheap. Aside from the travel expenses involved to simply get to another ...

Japan’s fertility rate started declining 50 years ago. It is possible that the circumstances the Land of the Rising Sun faced over the last half a century may be quite different from what we are ...

In 2024, countries like France, Germany, Canada, Japan, and South Korea faced significant political instability, with the ...

Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s ...

Fifty-three percent of voters view the single-seat constituency system that was first implemented in 1996 as “good,” a nationwide survey by The Asahi Shimbun showed. Thirty-seven percent of ...

The welfare ministry is moving to make permanent a temporary measure that allows part-time workers to remain dependents even ...

Japan presented plans Tuesday to introduce a system allowing the government to temporarily acquire factories making key products to ensure stable supplies during emergencies under its national ...