"Make kids, not war": Elon Musk warns South Korea as the land of K-romance faces a 96% birth rate declineElon Musk has highlighted South Korea's severe population decline, calling it a “catastrophic population collapse.” He has repeatedly warne...
13 Mar, 2025, 02.20 PM IST
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu foresees China’s civilisational death, similar to Japan, due to this reasonZoho CEO Sridhar Vembu warns that China's '996' work culture, which promotes extreme working hours, leads to declining birth rates. He comp...
08 Mar, 2025, 02.59 PM IST
Japan plans to give three weekly offs to everybody from next year to grow youngerThe Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to implement a four-day workweek for its employees starting in April 2025, aiming to address Japan...
13 Dec, 2024, 05.19 PM IST
Japanese lawmaker's bizarre comments on women to tackle country's declining birthrate is viralJapanese lawmaker Naoki Hyakuta is facing severe criticism after he made controversial and bizarre remarks about women in a YouTube program...
13 Nov, 2024, 04.54 PM IST
Japan PM warns 'today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia'Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba highlights concerns over East Asia's security and the country's low birth rate. Ishiba stresses t...
04 Oct, 2024, 11.41 AM IST
Japan's economy is shrinking, although slightly less than previously thoughtJapan GDP growth: Revised government data shows Japan's economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.8%, an improvement from the initial estimate ...
10 Jun, 2024, 10.03 AM IST
Japan’s shocking population decline calls for urgent action, govt to take these actions, offer financial helpBirth rate and number of marriages have once again again Japan. This has prompted an urgent budgetary intervention by the government.
06 Jun, 2024, 11.39 PM IST
Why is Japan grappling with record-low birth rates? Here’s what the govt saidJapan faces a significant demographic challenge, with the country's birth rate hitting a record low for the eighth consecutive year. The mo...
02 Mar, 2024, 12.59 AM IST
Japan's population falls while foreign residents rise to recordThe data showed that Japanese society is aging across the country and suggests that foreign nationals are playing an ever bigger role in ma...
26 Jul, 2023, 11.02 AM IST
Japan PM Fumio Kishida under fire for linking loans to having babiesKishida has pledged "unprecedented" measures to tackle the country's perennially low birthrate, and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is r...
04 Mar, 2023, 11.12 AM IST
Japan PM Kishida: it's 'now or never' to stop shrinking populationKishida said he would submit plans to double the budget on child-related policies by June, and that a new government agency to tackle the i...
23 Jan, 2023, 11.33 AM IST
Musk tweet on Japan doomed by low birthrate provokes anger - but not just at himThe comment hit a nerve among Japan watchers and in Japan, whose population peaked in 2008 and has declined since due to its low birthrate ...
09 May, 2022, 10.48 AM IST
New-daddy-moons need to be encouragedJapanese minister’s paternity leave should be a wake-up call for Indians too.
20 Jan, 2020, 10.54 AM IST
Mitsui partners Kao Corporation to enter diapers market in IndiaMerries gnerates more than 1500 billion Yen in annual sales and is the leading premium brand in Japan in term of sales value share for tape...
31 Jul, 2018, 01.49 PM IST
- Pampering pets appears to be a better bet than producing progeny
Australia and New Zealand have more sheep than human beings is well known; that Japan now has more pets than children is less known.
12 Jun, 2012, 05.30 AM IST
- Japan in trouble; India relatively safe
Experts see the global economic recession we are into right now getting worse before it gets better. Gainers: BSE ( A, B ), NSE | Losers: B...
19 Mar, 2009, 06.30 PM IST
- Japan to face labour shortage by 2050
Japan’s workforce may shrink by more than one-third by 2050 if the country fails to halt a declining birth-rate, the government said Tuesda...
23 Apr, 2008, 05.42 AM IST