NAGASU, Kumamoto -- Aside from an aging population, this southwestern Japan town faces new challenges as its foreign resident population has grown 20 times larger over the last 20 years. In the Ariake ...

少子高齢化の進行に伴い、公的年金制度だけでなく公的医療保険についても将来的な財政負担増が指摘されている。そこで本稿では、さまざまな公的医療保険制度改革が家計の意思決定および我が国の財政にどのような影響を与えるかについて考察する。

This project analyzes the impacts of low fertility and aging population on the Japanese economy, in particular from the aspects of economic growth, productivity, labor force, and prices. Technological ...

The number of elderly people in Japan surged by 20,000 from September 2023 to 36.25 million, accounting for a record high 29.3 percent of the population, government figures showed. The Ministry of ...

At a construction site in eastern Tokyo in mid-July, the effects of climate change and the challenges posed by Japan’s aging population converged under the capital’s scorching summer sun. A ...

Major Japanese corporations are rapidly expanding early retirement and voluntary resignation programs to reshape an aging workforce. With population aging, labor shortages, and intensifying global ...

Japan is entering uncharted demographic territory as its rapidly aging society embarks on a phase of negative population growth. Can the trend be reversed? How can Japan maintain economic growth amid ...

TOKUSHIMA, Japan — In a rural town in Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture, older adults earn up to about $130,000 per year by collecting and polishing fallen maple leaves from their backyards as part of a ...