Japan's aging workforce, labor shortages, and government policies show how the country has adapted as 30% of its population is over 65.

The U.S. population is older than ever, and that trend is accelerating. As baby boomers age and birth rates decline, the country is heading toward a demographic reality that Japan has been grappling ...

Japan is on the brink of a significant demographic shift that will reshape its economy, welfare systems, and overall societal health. By the year 2050, solo households are expected to comprise 44.3 ...

Despite falling birth rates and shrinking armies, East Asian powers are boosting military spending, driven by threat ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

Their passionate chants of “jasso, joyasa” (meaning “evil, be gone”) echoed through a ceder forest of the northern Japan’s Iwate region. Japan's "Sominsai" festival is the latest tradition impacted by ...