population
May 25, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--The population of Fukushima Prefecture increased over the previous month for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster, prefecture authorities said May 24.
May 07, 2013
Cram school operators struggling with a shrinking domestic market are pitching Japanese-style teaching methods to other Asian countries, where higher birthrates and growing...
May 05, 2013
As the nation celebrated the national Children's Day holiday on May 5, the latest statistics on children continue to reflect their ominous decline in numbers, with the only...
April 19, 2013
I recently learned the word "mancession." Coined from "man" and "recession," it denotes a situation where the unemployment rate for men is substantially higher than that for...
April 17, 2013
Japan’s population has dropped by a record 284,000.
April 09, 2013
BEIJING--Two retired senior Chinese officials are engaged in a battle with one another to sway Beijing's new leadership over the future of the one-child policy, exposing...
March 28, 2013
The demographics of Japanese cities look set to change drastically in the years ahead, according to a new report.
February 23, 2013
SINGAPORE --Already one of the most densely populated countries in the world, tiny land scarce Singapore is projecting its population to swell by a third over the next two...
January 29, 2013
SINGAPORE--Have more babies to build the ranks of Singaporeans and get set for a construction boom but accept heavier congestion and more foreign workers as the crowded Asian...
January 28, 2013
Japan is heading for a catastrophe unless it reforms its social, welfare and economic systems to deal with the expected plunge in its population, a veteran demographic expert...
January 19, 2013
Single-person dwellings will account for nearly 40 percent of all households in Japan in 2035, the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research said Jan. 18.
January 15, 2013
BEIJING--China's population of Internet users rose 10 percent last year to 564 million even as communist authorities tightened controls on content, according to data released...
January 02, 2013
Japan's population dropped to 127.47 million in 2012, marking the largest natural decline since statistics began in 1899, according to government estimates.
October 03, 2012
MANILA--Philippine President Benigno Aquino is squaring off against his country's powerful Catholic church in a bid to give people free access to the means to limit the size of ...
September 17, 2012
Japan's Respect-for-the-Aged Day now honors nearly a quarter of its population.
August 31, 2012
The results of China’s 2010 population census have been released, showing the overall population continues to grow. However, the population of some regions has declined and...
August 31, 2012
The results of China’s 2010 population census have been released, showing the overall population continues to grow. However, the population of some regions has declined and...
August 08, 2012
Japan’s population fell by 263,727 in the year to April, almost double the rate of a year earlier, according to figures released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and...
May 19, 2012
The number of cellphone subscriptions in Japan has topped the one-subscription-per-head mark for the first time since statistics were kept in fiscal 1988, the Ministry of...
May 05, 2012
The number of children under 15 in Japan fell to a new record low on April 1, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said May 4.