This is an updated version of a story first published on April 27, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The world's population may have recently exceeded eight billion, but it's a deceptive ...

A mother guides her children across a street in Tokyo in October 2024. Japan is dealing with a demographic crisis. The country’s total fertility rate (TFR), which measures the average number of ...

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Record low birth rates in Japan have led Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to allocate as much as 3.6 trillion yen (US$22.3 billion) per annum in an attempt to reverse the trend. But fertility-boosting ...

In Japan, Tokyo City Hall has launched a new online service called "Tokyo Futari Story" that aims to help people find relationships by offering counsel and general information. A dating app is also in ...

Japan's government recently announced plans to address what it sees as a national crisis. Less than 800,000 babies were born in the country last year, the lowest number on record. But the plans are ...