Most major media covered the March 22 Tokyo news conference where Sachiko Kishimoto of the nonprofit organization Oocyte Donation Network (OD-Net) explained how a woman in her 40s had recently given birth to a daughter who had been conceived using the woman's husband's sperm ...
The latest forecasts for the decline in the nation's population are likely to bring forward the debate on immigration, despite the government's refusal to use the word "immigration" to describe its policies. The country's population is expected to shrink to 88.08 million by 2065, down ...
The population of Japan is expected to plunge to 88.08 million in 2065, a roughly 30 percent fall from the 2015 level, according to a government-affiliated research institute.
There are so many reasons to hate your job, if you're lucky enough to have one. The top four, according to Spa! magazine, are: stagnant salaries; a sense of being underappreciated and underevaluated; an overriding, unfocused anxiety; and a lost sense of purpose. Sixteen additional ...
China might further relax, or even scrap, restrictions on childbirth to avoid a "low birthrate trap," an influential government think tank has said, as the country debates how to avert a demographic time bomb. China's birth rate, one of the world's lowest, is fast becoming ...
The central government will expand the scope of its assistance to konkatsu spouse-hunting events to include those hosted by companies and other private organizations. Such support is currently limited to activities sponsored by municipalities. The central government hopes to encourage more people to marry, aiming ...
Under the first such program in Japan subsidized by a local government to address the nation's low birthrate, a hospital in Chiba Prefecture has frozen the eggs of a woman in her 20s to preserve them for future pregnancy, the hospital said. Juntendo University Urayasu ...
Urayasu’s groundbreaking subsidy plan to improve the nation’s birthrate may offset roughly 80 percent of the cost of freezing healthy women’s eggs.
For a nation that rebuilt itself from the ashes of war, the modern challenge of repopulation should surely not prove impossible.
A census has confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: The population is shrinking. The population stood at 127.1 million last fall, down 0.7 percent from 128.1 million in 2010, according to results of the 2015 ...
Japan's political and business leaders appear to be taking an ostrich-like approach to the severe demographic challenges that lie ahead.
Finding relationships between poverty and academic performance requires a nuanced approach.
