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Japanese population sees record drop in 2024Japan's population crisis deepens as the number of Japanese nationals declined by a record 908,574 in 2024, marking the 16th consecutive ye...07 Aug, 2025, 09.56 AM IST- Big demographic change in Japan: More diapers are being sold for the elderly than babiesJapan faces a demographic shift. Adult diaper sales exceed baby diaper sales. Oji Holdings stops making baby diapers in Japan. They will fo...18 Apr, 2025, 11.21 PM IST
- While struggling with low birth rates, this nation admits to sending babies like 'luggage' to foreign countriesSouth Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that adoption agencies falsely labelled children as orphans and committed other vio...27 Mar, 2025, 03.28 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
- More countries, including China, are grappling with shrinking and aging populationsCountries grappling with population decline and aging issues offer financial incentives to encourage childbirth. China, Japan, Italy, and S...17 Jan, 2025, 10.06 AM IST
- After China and Japan, now Russia is offering 100,000 roubles to female students under 25 to have babiesRussia has introduced measures to increase birth rates by offering financial incentives to female students under 25 who give birth. This po...09 Jan, 2025, 12.50 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
- Not just Singapore. Elon Musk has also warned three other countries are in danger of becoming extinct from EarthElon Musk has voiced concerns about declining birth rates, in Singapore, where the fertility rate has dropped to a historic low of 0.97. He...09 Dec, 2024, 03.11 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 population falls for the 15th year in a row. Births hit a record low, deaths a record highJapan's population declined for the 15th consecutive year, dropping by over half a million due to low birth rates and an aging population. ...25 Jul, 2024, 06.46 AM IST
- Japan's birth rate hits record low, Tokyo introduces government dating app to boost marriage ratesJapan faces a demographic challenge with plunging birth and fertility rates, prompting governmental initiatives like a state-backed dating ...08 Jun, 2024, 12.42 PM IST
- Japan introduces dating app to boost marriage and birth ratesTokyo City Hall is introducing "Tokyo Futari Story" to combat loneliness and declining marriage rates in Japan. This initiative includes a ...06 Jun, 2024, 10.35 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
- Newborn mortality: India 12th worst among low-income countriesPakistan is the worst with 45.6 newborn deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) which has, f...20 Feb, 2018, 10.21 AM IST
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