Official campaigning for the House of Representatives election kicked off Jan. 27. Debates will intensify as Japan heads ...

China’s births have fallen to a level comparable to that of 1738, when the country’s total population was only about 150 ...

Despite Beijing’s campaign to encourage couples to have more children, new data shows China’s population decline is ...

Artificial intelligence sparks job loss fears, but shrinking global populations suggest AI may ease labour shortages rather than cause mass unemployment in the future.

As China’s fertility rate falls to roughly half the replacement level of 2.1, Beijing is scrambling to boost births through policy incentives. But the decline now resembles a boulder rolling ...

The study argues that shrinking cities are not urban failures but a normal and complex form of post-growth development, ...

Today, society is evolving into the demographic shape of a light bulb. Most organizations are not prepared for what is to ...

Vembu has repeatedly warned that India should pay close attention to what is happening in China and Japan. Citing Chinese ...

We live in a era of nearly universally grim climate projections, when the rapidly changing weather of our world threatens everything from our ability to maintain a home or get insured, to the future ...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Japan's electricity demand is expected to grow 5.3% over the next decade, driven by rising consumption from data centres and semiconductor factories, the ...

The number of Japanese births continues to plunge, and is set to fall short of the government’s most pessimistic targets this year. That will hit the population, and exacerbate the economic challenges ...

The soldiers jumped into Narashino Training Area in Chiba prefecture and Ojojibara Maneuver Area in Miyagi prefecture, both ...