In other words, 29.38 percent of Japan’s population is elderly. By prefecture, the population of Tokyo increased by 3,933, or 0.03 percent, from the previous year. Tokyo was the only ...

For the third straight year, there was a net increase in immigration, with 340,000 more people entering than leaving Japan. By prefecture, the population only increased in Tokyo and Saitama ...

For the fourteenth year running, Japan's population has slumped to a record low. How do Japan's population figures stack up?

The 38 prefectures that lost population were mainly rural areas. Hokkaido had the largest decrease at 153,000. Population declines were also recorded in 1,416, or 82.4 percent, of Japan’s 1,719 ...

Tokyo and the three neighboring prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba make up almost 30 percent of the Japan's population. The figure is a record high. Akita Prefecture posted the largest ...

ANKARA – Japan's already dwindling population has posted its largest annual decline on record, falling by 898,000 people as ...

Japan’s foreign population was 3,768,977 as of the end of 2024, according to figures released by the Immigration Services Agency, rising by 357,985, or 10.5%, year on year. This is the third ...

TOKYO (Bernama-Xinhua): The elderly population, those aged 65 and above, is expected to make up over 40 per cent of the residents by 2050 in 25 out of 47 prefectures across Japan, as per local ...

Background Japan’s ‘Health Japan 21’ initiative targets a reduction in adult smoking prevalence to 12% by 2032. This study ...