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Japan’s birth rate rose for the first half of the year for the first time in over a decade
- Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2026 - Tweet
More babies follow two consecutive years of more marriages.
- Japan
- (ageing population • babies • birth rate • Japan birth rate • marriage • shrinking population • society)
Deaths way up, births way down yet again in Japan as population shrinks faster than expected
- Master Blaster
Mar 5, 2025
At least there are some things you can rely on these days.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • culture • death rate • economy • Ministry of Heath Labor and Welfare • population • population decline • statistics)
If Japanese men “have their act together,” Japanese women will reward them with babies, politician says
- Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2024
Tells people with few children to put their hands over their hearts and regret their actions.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • COK • crazy • Japan birth rate • Liberal Democratic Party • low birth rate • politicians • politics • shrinking population • society • Takashi Sasakawa • weird)
Tokyo government creating its own official dating app, slated to launch this summer
- Casey Baseel
Jun 13, 2024
Japan’s biggest city wants to hook you up with someone.
- Japan
- (birth rate • COK • dating • dating apps • marriage • relationships • romance • society • Tokyo • weird)
Japan’s Japanese population dropping in every part of the country, foreign population rising
- Casey Baseel
Jul 28, 2023
Study shows fewer Japanese living in each and every prefecture, opposite for foreign resident number.
- Japan
- (ageing population • birth rate • COK • foreigners in Japan • Living in Japan • shrinking population • society)
Japanese government wants to give people an extra 80,000 yen to have babies, but will it work?
- Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2022
Increase to Childbirth and Childcare Lump-Sum Grant is latest proposed plan to boost birth rate.
- Japan
- (babies • birth rate • COK • declining birth rate • low birth rate • population decline • society)
Top five Japanese prefectures for childhood education expenditure would make any wallet shudder
- Katy Kelly
Dec 20, 2021
On average, parents in Prefecture #1 are paying around five times more to send kids to school than parents in Prefecture #47.
- Japan
- (Aomori • birth rate • children • education • kids • Living in Japan • Parenting • parents • school • society • Tokyo)
Japanese town will give you two million yen for having your third kid there in birth-boosting plan
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2021
And if you have another kid after that? Another two million yen.
- Japan
- (babies • birth rate • COK • family • Niigata • parents • sado • shrinking population • society)
Japanese city manager gives speech telling new employees to “play around” to fix birth rate issue
- Scott Wilson
Apr 4, 2021
Ah, yes. Why didn’t we think of that?
Births in Japan hit record low in 2020, deaths down for first time in over a decade
- Master Blaster
Feb 24, 2021
2021 might be even less reproductive.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • coronavirus • COVID-19 • death rate • Labor and Welfare • Ministry of Health)
Tokyo’s latest plan to boost birth rate: Pay people 100,000 yen per baby they give birth to
- Casey Baseel
Jan 15, 2021
Critics are already calling the idea shortsighted.
- Japan
- (babies • birth rate • COK • families • low birth rate • Parenting • parents • society • Tokyo)
Japanese government’s new birth rate plan: Use AI to tell people who’d be a good spouse for them
- Casey Baseel
Dec 10, 2020
Wants to help people find spouses who don’t meet their preferences for age, income, or education.
- Japan
- (AI • artificial intelligence • birth rate • COK • marriage • relationships • society • weird)
Population aging in Japan gets a corona-boost as pregnancies drop by 11 percent this year
- Master Blaster
Oct 26, 2020
COVID-19 takes its toll on Japan in a different way.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • declining birth rate • pregnancy • society)
Survey shows that Japanese couples are trying to conceive earlier
- Shannon
Jul 2, 2020
Childbirth rates in Japan may be low, but couples are getting started earlier than before.
- Japan
- (birth rate • COK • declining birth rate • having kids • kids • marriage • national survey • Parenting • parents • pregnancy • society)
Rethinking of gender roles is a “prerequisite” for raising Japan’s birth rate, experts say
- Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2019
Panel says a reevaluation of how much housework and childcare Japanese men should do is necessary for reversing the country’s aging, shrinking population trend.
Food, sleep, or sex? Survey asks Japanese people which they can’t live without
- Casey Baseel
Aug 16, 2019
One wins in a landslide, while another gets hardly any votes at all.
What do Japanese people think of their country’s low birthrate? 【Video】
- Scott Wilson
Jul 7, 2016
Japan has a big problem with little babies, but what do the Japanese people think about it?
- Japan
- (birth rate • declining birthrate • finance • Japanese society • marriage • That Japanese Man Yuta)
Singaporeans are getting creative when it comes to combating the low fertility rate
- Jamie Koide
Feb 5, 2016
With one of the lowest birth rates in the world, activists in Singapore are using clever advertising campaigns and humor to try to trigger a baby boom.
- SE Asia
- (ads • birth rate • children • Parenting • relationships • Singapore • society)
Is Japan itself dying of old age? Premium city real estate auctioned off for next to nothing
- Scott Wilson
Sep 14, 2015
It’s no secret that Japan’s elderly population is on the rise while the younger population is on decline. Though everyone from the government to economists is trying to figure out what the ramifications of such a top-heavy population will be, Japan is already feeling some of the consequences.
No place is this more apparent than in Japan’s northern prefecture of Aomori. What was once a thriving area a few decades ago is now by all accounts a snowy ghost town.
The most recent event to highlight just how bad things have become is Aomori City practically give away prime real estate. Why has this happened and just how bad are things in Aomori? Read on to find out!
- Japan
- (aging society • Aomori • Aomori Prefecture • birth rate • population • real estate)
Japan tops list of countries with shrinking population projection, but no one’s surprised
- Preston Phro
Apr 30, 2015
As you may have heard, the Japanese population has taken a turn for the older…and the smaller. In fact, it has even topped a list of five countries facing “extinction” according to Sputnik Japan. The statistics have got a lot of people talking online, and we’re here to share all the tongue-wagging with you!
- Internet, Japan
- (aging • birth rate • population)
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