Former world title challengers Jeo Santisima and Michael Dasmarinas fell short in their respective bouts on Saturday night, ...

Suicides among elementary, junior high and high school students in Japan hit a record high in 2024 despite the overall number ...

Zensho Holdings, which operates the Sukiya chain, saw its shares fall as much as 7.1 per cent after it revealed the grisly ...

Its low projection variant forecast the number to fall below 600,000 in 2035. Low birthrates in Japan have long raised concerns about a shrinking working population, labor shortages in the nursing ...

The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low of 720,988 in 2024 for a ninth consecutive year of decline, the health ministry said on Thursday, underscoring the rapid ageing and ...

You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected]. Japan's population has dwindled for 15 consecutive years, as fewer people marry and have children. About 30 percent of ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's industrial output in January fell ... It followed a downwardly revised 0.2 percent fall in December. The ministry maintained its basic assessment of industrial ...

In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in Japan, including to foreign nationals, down five per cent from 758,631 in 2023, according to preliminary health ministry data. The number of births shrank to ...