Aging Japan Faces Dating Hurdle As Births and Marriages Plummet
A quarter of Japanese people under 40 who have tied the knot found their spouse through a dating app, a recent survey found.
Ban on women marrying after 25: The bizarre proposal to boost birth rate in Japan
Japan’s noted writer and Conservative Party leader Naoki Hyakuta has apologised after his comments on women and the falling ...
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Hospital plans to register birth without listing mother’s name
The woman, aged between 10 and 19, who lives in western Japan and gave birth in December ... 2019 to prevent a mother from giving birth by herself at home that could place both her and the ...
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Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate
Japan is home to the oldest population in the world, after tiny Monaco. It is recording fewer births than ever before. By 2050, it could lose a fifth of its current population. Yet its hostility ...
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2020 saw births in Japan hit new low and drop in foreign residents
Japan logged only about 843,000 births in 2020, its lowest number since ... The number of Japanese returning home exceeded the number of those leaving the country by 101,000, the highest on ...
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Japan births fall under 330,000 in Jan-June, down 6.3% from 2023
The number of births in Japan in 2024 is likely to fall under 700,000 for the first time after government data showed Tuesday that the figure in the first half fell 6.3 percent from a year earlier to ...
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Births in Japan fall another 6% in first half
The comparable number of births in the first half of 2023 was 352,240, with a full-year total of 727,277. In 2022, the number of newborns in Japan fell below 800,000 for the first time since 1899.