Population
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Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world’s most populous city, according to UN
The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisa…
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Japan’s imported baby boom spotlights a political and demographic timebomb
Rise in births to non-Japanese comes as politicians keep dodging the choice between economic decline and a mor…
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Record number of babies born to foreign parents in Japan amid political row over migration
More than 20,000 children were born to non-Japanese couples, accounting for more than 3% of all newbornsThe nu…
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Japan PM Shigeru Ishiba faces uncertain future after losing upper house majority
Ballot heaps pressure on Ishiba’s minority government just as it attempts to negotiate deal to avert Trump tar…
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Japan records lowest number of births in more than a century, as population fears grow
New government data shows the number of births reached 686,061 in 2024, a decline of 5.7% from the previous ye…
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Japan asks young people why they are not marrying amid population crisis
Consultation launched as surveys show people have little chance to meet partners and worry about high cost of …
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Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor
Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requ…
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South Korea’s fertility rate sinks to record low despite $270bn in incentives
Average number of births per woman falls to 0.72 in country that already has the world’s lowest rate, and has …
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Japan, with a twist: the provincial town that hosts people from 49 countries
Ōizumi has welcomed foreign workers and boasts everything from Brazilian supermarkets to Turkish kebab shopsAn…
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Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time
Changing demographics are affecting nearly every part of society, while efforts to turn around the decline hav…
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Baby boomtown: does Nagi hold the secret to repopulating Japan?
Fertility rate is more than twice the national average and nearly half of households have three or more childr…
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When 75 is time to die: the horrifically plausible film imagining state-run euthanasia in Japan
Japan’s ageing and lonely population is reaching crisis point. What’s the solution? The director of Plan 75, a…
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Dreaming an Island review – an eerie tour of planet Earth’s depopulated future
This documentary about a small Japanese island, a once thriving mining outpost that now has only 100 residents…
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Old world – Inside the 27 January Guardian Weekly
A demographic timebomb for the planet. Plus: Why Jacinda Ardern quit politicsGet the magazine delivered to you…
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Japan PM’s solution to dire birthrate has already been rejected by young
Fumio Kishida says lifting the birthrate ‘cannot wait’ yet policies stick to scripts that have so far failed t…
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Japan’s ageing population poses urgent risk to society, says PM
Fumio Kishida says country may be unable to function if birthrate does not riseJapan’s low birthrate and agein…
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Ageing planet: the new demographic timebomb
India is about to overtake China as the most populous country, but as birthrates fall we’re facing life in a g…
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Million yen per child to leave Tokyo – Japan’s offer to families
Government boosts incentives to lure people to ‘unfashionable’ regional areas hit by ageing, shrinking populat…
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‘I’m afraid to have children’: fear of an older future in Japan and South Korea
As birth and fertility rates fall, there is official concern about the economic impact of a declining and agei…
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Record number of young people in Japan rejecting marriage, survey shows
Rise in people aged 18-24 who don’t intend to marry has consequences for Japan’s low birth rate and depopulati…