Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Japan’s precipitous population decline shows no sign of slowing, with the nation shrinking by more than 900,000 people last year – the biggest annual drop on record, according to government data. The ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...

The Japanese government has issued another grim update as the window for preventing a demographic crisis continues to narrow. The country's population shrank by nearly 900,000 people in the year ...

Yoshihide Suga, expected to become Japan's prime minister this week, hails from Akita prefecture in the north, which leads ...