Meanwhile, another reason for population growth is the need for well remunerated labor. Of all towns and villages in Japan, the ski resort village of Akaigawa in Hokkaido had the highest rate of ...

The Chinese government has rebuffed bold consumption stimulus policy. But boosting domestic household spending is precisely ...

The world's population is growing but in some countries birth rates are plummeting - so do we have too many people or too few ...

China, following Japan and South Korea, has entered an era of full-fledged population decline. What should be done to halt ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 25 ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo.

Here’s one way to visualize the imprecision: Any time you’re looking at a chart of future population projections, there is a ...

Government data on Friday revealed there were 2.3 million foreign workers in Japan, with a growth rate of 12.4%, equivalent to an additional 254,000 ... The hike in Japan's foreign workers comes as ...

The Indian economy, expanding at a breakneck pace, now ranks among the top five largest economies globally. Despite this, ...

I think the Asian population, in particular related to the growth in the younger age groups, is sort of a major driver of factors as to why we see this large increase over the past 10 years ...

The number of applications has surged, as the Philippines registers the highest growth of visitors to Japan among ASEAN ...

Managers see mixed opportunities in emerging markets and a broadening opportunity set for small caps across global markets.