Japan's population has dwindled for 15 consecutive years, as fewer people marry and have children. About 30 percent of Japanese are now 65 or older, compounding the demographic challenge and dragging on Asia's second-largest economy as it pulls itself out of a decades-long slump.

The number of births in Japan fell to another record low, underscoring the growing challenge of how to shoulder ballooning social security costs for an aging society with what’s already become an ever shrinking pool of tax-paying workers.

Births in Japan hit another record low in 2024, falling for the ninth-straight year as young people delay marriage while the elderly population rises, government data showed Thursday. The numbers highlight the dramatic demographic challenges facing the world's fourth-biggest economy,

Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined in the effort to slow the largest forest fire in Japan in 30 years after it has burned nearly 3,000 acres of forest in the Iwate prefecture from Tuesday into Friday.

Firefighters battled to contain fires razing across Japan’s northeastern coastal city of Ofunato on Friday (February 28).

A charred body has been found, and more than 84 homes have been engulfed in raging forest fires in northeastern Japan, as firefighters battled intense blazes fuelled by strong, dry winds. More than 2,

As a dwindling working-age population is causing a severe shortage of care workers in Japan, the country is turning its eyes to robots for a solution. A Japanese university has designed an artificial intelligence (AI) driven humanoid robot called "AIREC" to carry out tasks such as changing diapers or preventing bedsores for older people who need critical care.

Hold Key to Nursing Japan's Ageing Population By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used to change diapers or prevent bedsores in the elderly.