The variations in the initiation, course, speed and terminations of demographic transitions may involve cultural and temporal specificities as well as historic incidents. In this article there is an ...

Japan’s population is aging and shrinking fast. With a median age of 48.4 years, Japan’s population is the world’s oldest. The government of Japan projects that there will be almost one elderly person ...

Japan is currently going through the most dramatic demographic transition that the world has ever seen that cannot be ascribed to either war or plague. Life expectancy is rising, fertility rates are ...

Japan is dealing with what economists call a "demographic time bomb." Through a vicious cycle of low fertility and low consumer spending, the country's economy has gradually shrunk over the last 20 ...

Over the last five years, Japan's economy has contracted by more than two trillion dollars in GDP and 1 million people in lost population. If the US doesn't keep investing in immigrant labor and ...