Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years. Last year ...

Japan and South Korea continue to pour funding ... The capital itself had a population density of around 15,560 people per square kilometer in 2022, more than twice as many as densely packed ...

Japan’s population has fallen for the 12th consecutive year, as deaths rise and the birth rate continues to sink, according to government data released Wednesday. The population stood at 124.49 ...

Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address 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 rapidly graying country’s demographic crisis. According to figures ...

With a whopping population of 37,274,000, Japan's Tokyo tops the list recently revealed by WorldAtlas, an online geography resource. “Like Mumbai, the population density of this city has it nearly ...

We believe the reason most successful players in this space operate in either Europe or Asia is because of their high population density—the number of available customers in a small geographical ...

Other small urban regions, like Monaco, Singapore and Vatican City, also ranked highly in population density. While these areas all have populations of less than 10 million combined, those ...

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 125 million population is aged 65 or older- a record. Japan has one of ...

The number of elderly people in Japan surged by 20,000 from September 2023 to 36.25 million, accounting for a record high 29.3 percent of the population, government figures showed. The Ministry of ...