Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's ...

Japan’s already low birth rates have further declined. Last year, the nation’s “total fertility rate,” which indicates the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during ...

ANALYSIS: Before the election, Labor promised policies to lift the declining birthrate, but there is little evidence they will actually work.

Falling birth rates and rising life expectancies have become ... China is roaring down a path being forged by its aging neighbors, Japan and South Korea. In 2021 South Korea had the world ...

but Japan reached that level three years ahead of the projection. The fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, dropped to 1.34 in ...

Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in ...

A new government-issued report reflects some of the most controversial views on vaccines, the nation’s food supply, ...

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about U.S. politics, crime and ...

The latest monthly Labour Market Statistics (May 2025) published by the Office for National Statistics reveal that the mean average weekly wage across all industry sectors in Great Britain (total ...

Europe Is Negotiating by the Book, but Trump Is Tearing It Up President Trump sees tariff talks as a chance to pressure a rival into concessions. E.U. officials have acted as if they were dealing ...

IN 1989, Japan’s economic dominance seemed unstoppable, with companies expanding globally and acquiring American icons like Rockefeller Centre. Yet, domestically, a quiet crisis loomed ...

Oil prices gained on Friday as U.S. buyers covered positions ahead of the three-day Memorial Day weekend amid worries over the latest round of nuclear talks between American and Iranian negotiators.