Lawmakers representing Democratic-controlled states are pushing back, arguing it is an arbitrary move to help out red states ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will likely proceed cautiously in his first meeting with President Donald Trump on ...

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Japan, South Korea and Taiwan urbanized and industrialized at a faster pace than most other economies post-World War Two. They also have the lowest fertility rates globally. While China’s birth ...

Support groups across Japan are hosting events throughout February to raise awareness of the challenges faced by "double ...

Tokyo’s total fertility rate, or the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during her lifetime ... the only prefecture in Japan that failed to reach 1.00, according to data ...

Trump has long felt that Japan and other wealthy allies take advantage of the U.S., racking up big trade surpluses, while ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is the first Asian leader to visit the second Trump administration. He faces ...

supporting the Bank of Japan’s latest rate hike decision and keeping it on track for further tightening steps. Nominal cash earnings for workers climbed 4.8% in December from a year earlier ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Breast cancer screening participation in Japan decreased from 48.3% before the COVID-19 pandemic to 47.1% during it. The decline was notable in municipality ...

Birth rates, marriage rates, and transportation funding are terms generally not uttered in the same breath. But President Trump’s new transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, is looking to change ...