Eggs of woman in 20s frozen in Urayasu in Japan's first city-funded program
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 ...
Chiba municipality to offer young women subsidies to freeze their eggs
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.
Japan won't go quietly into the night as population falls
For a nation that rebuilt itself from the ashes of war, the modern challenge of repopulation should surely not prove impossible.
Japan's political and business leaders appear to be taking an ostrich-like approach to the severe demographic challenges that lie ahead.
Taking a closer look at the child poverty rate
Finding relationships between poverty and academic performance requires a nuanced approach.
The one-child policy may be gone in China, but the the one-child mentality remains.
Abe convenes panel to tackle low birthrate, aging population
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has tasked the panel of intellectuals and Cabinet members with providing ideas to overcome the demographics conundrum.
Finding the right approach to sex education
Sex education in both Japanese and U.S. schools can stand a great deal of improvement.
Abe counts on Kato to reverse sliding birthrate, labor exodus in aging Japan
Prime Minister Abe is counting on his new minister in charge of population decline to inspire imitators. He’s a father of four.
Women's group pressures Suga to retract birthrate-related remark
The group is demanding the government's top spokesman retract a remark in which he said that giving birth is a "form of contribution to the nation."
The number of babies born in Japan in the January-to-June period rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier to 508,802, government data shows, suggesting it would lead to the first annual increase in five years. The country's population has been declining as the proportion of ...
As Tokyo shrinks, Olympics may be last blast
Half a century ago, the Tokyo Olympics ushered in a golden age for Japan's capital, as industrial prowess made it the largest urban complex in history. Now the games are returning to mark the end of that growth. "This will be the final festival," says ...
