Japan's total fertility rate last year dropped to the lowest since records began in 1947. Many people attribute the decline to the country's inflexible work culture. Preliminary demographic ...

Tokyo ranked at the bottom among Japan’s 47 prefectures in the total fertility rate, the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during her lifetime. The rate in the capital was ...

The number of Japanese children born in 2023 sank to an all-time low of 727,277, while the total fertility rate shrank to its smallest level on record, health ministry data showed on June 5.