South Korea faces a severe population and demographic crisis. Dr Lee Sang-lim explores the causes, impact, and solutions, comparing them with Japan's situation.
Amid a declining population, a survey found that the longer a husband spends on housework and childcare, the higher the birth rate for subsequent children.
In 2022, Japan broke its own record for the lowest number of births. As Kishida says, "unprecedented" measures are in order — and this writer has...
From Twitter to Ukraine and even Japan, the words and actions of the outspoken Elon Musk are constantly throwing observers off balance.
Recently there has been much debate on the pros and cons of accepting a large number of foreign workers to accommodate growing labor shortages attributed...
The last weeks of 2018 saw a spate of articles in the English language press reporting that the Japanese “birth rate” was at the...