The total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, fell to 1.26 in 2022. It’s the lowest number since 1947, the starting year for ...
For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older. National data also shows 29.1% of the ...
Japan ’s already alarming demographic crisis has now hit a worrying new milestone. For the first time in the country’s ...
More than 10% of Japan’s population is now age 80 or older, the government said Monday, the latest worrying milestone in the ...
More than 10% of Japan’s population is now age 80 or older, the government said Monday, the latest worrying milestone in the ...
This file photo shows Japan's Finance Ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Budget requests by Japanese government offices for the next fiscal year likely hit a record of ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's budget demands will hit a record for the next fiscal year, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt-servicing ...
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TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Japan's budget demands will hit a record for the next fiscal year, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's budget demands will hit a record, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), for the current fiscal year, sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt ...
