This is an updated version of a story first published on April 27, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The world's population may have recently exceeded eight billion, but it's a deceptive ...

Yano Research Institute estimates Japan's five-segment baby-related business market at ¥4.657 trillion for 2025, with government-subsidized daycare and resilient toy sales compensating for ...

The number of babies born in Japan has dropped to the lowest the country has ever seen since records began 125 years ago, falling ninth straight year despite the government’s efforts to reverse the ...

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Former professional soccer player Hailey Hinkley gave birth to her second child in a hospital in Japan after moving there for her husband's job Hailey recalls the nurses being so warm, even going so ...

TOKYO — Japan’s birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth straight year in 2023, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday. A government official described the situation as critical ...

TOKYO — The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for a ninth straight year to a record low, according to health ministry data released Thursday. The faster-than-predicted decline suggests ...

The Tokyo city government is expected to launch a dating app as early as this year to help encourage single citizens to meet and get married. Meanwhile, local dating app company Tapple has been ...

James Pethokoukis is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The Conservative Futurist.” Economic coverage of falling birth rates these days sounds like a CNBC adaptation ...