As Japan’s population ages and youth cohorts shrink, universities are looking outward. At the University of Tokyo, Kaori Hayashi helps lead the push for international students.

Explore Japan's demographic crisis: declining population, low birthrates, and the impact on its economy. Understand the ...

Every G7 nation's fertility rate dropped below replacement levels in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the pension bill is coming due, and organizations are not ready.

At least 68 people died during the winter – all but 10 of them over 65 – when record-breaking snow hit the country’s north.

Hidden in plain sight, a new bird species, the Tokara leaf warbler, emerges from DNA evidence, revealing more vulnerable ...

Sen. Will Parkinson is concerned about the potential fallout effects to Guam over reports that Japan plans to designate its distant island of Minamitorishima as a potential final disposal site ...

An innovative stem cell therapy approved for severe heart failure has been cleared for use in Japan. Here is why it matters ...

Asharq Al Awsat Beneath the powder snow at internationally popular Japanese ski resort Niseko, anxiety is mounting among residents over soaring prices and a massive influx of overseas workers. At a ...

TOKYO -- A new government survey shows that ideas about men's and women's roles are very different across Japan. In some ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 7 ...

Closer home, India’s population will continue to grow briefly from its current 1.5 billion to 1.7 billion, and then drop back to 1.5 billion by 2100—leaving the population unchanged after a 75-year ...

The move comes under new health guidelines, brought in to try and tackle Russia's declining birth rate.