What Happens in Japan with a Declining Population. Additionally, he noted that several smaller cities were expected to experience decline even before then. In his book, Kawai said population ...

The nation’s overall population will be around 70 percent of today’s total, mainly because of the declining birthrate, while the rate of foreign residents living in Japan will jump fivefold by ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Japan's population has taken a million person dip in the last five years. Japanese couples aren't having babies, and according to a recent survey, aren't having sex ...

Japan faces urban population decline by 2035, with ageing societies challenging city sustainability and prompting calls for immigration reform Japan's decades-long fears over a contracting ...

For the better part of three decades, since its once-booming economy slipped into a semi-permanent funk, Japan has served as a cautionary tale for other developed economies. Many view it as a country ...

Policies available to address these trends may be more straightforward for some countries. Japan’s population has been declining since 2010, but a rise in the workforce participation rate for women ...

2019 marks the end of the Heisei era in Japan ... population also began to shrink in 2010. The number of babies born in the country last year was almost 30 percent less than in 1989. The decline ...