Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

Both the elderly population and the aging rate were the highest since 1950, when such data became available. The number of women 65 and over was 20.53 million, or 32.3 percent of Japan’s female ...

Yet despite these long-standing issues, inflation in Japan remains stubbornly high — and surprisingly, rice prices are ...

Japan faces a demographic shift. Adult diaper sales exceed baby diaper sales. Oji Holdings stops making baby diapers in Japan ...

To help deal with its ageing population, Japan offers super bespoke health programmes for individual citizens, which aim to ...

The 150-kg (330 lb) artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future “caregiver” for Japan’s rapidly ageing population and chronic shortage of aged-care workers.

Japan's crude imports are in structural decline. The country is increasingly dependent on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according ...