This text was the first full-length study to examine the war from the perspective of its impact on Japanese society, and sheds light on its implications for modern Japan. What did the war mean to the ...

New figures show that 20% of elderly Japanese will live alone by 2050, so the government wants solutions to avoid "kodokushi" — the Japanese term that means a lonely death.

New figures ... a Better Aging Society (WABAS), where she eventually rose to become secretary general, Arai has a firm understanding of the challenges facing older people in Japan's fast-paced ...

It was a warm summer afternoon at Japan Society ... out new ways of attracting audiences, new ways of expressing the abundance of Japan to an American audience--and helping people understand ...

More than one in 10 people in the world's oldest country have crossed the 80-year-old mark for the first time For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older.

A postwar low of 514,000 marriages were registered in Japan in 2021 ... households is sharply rising because fewer people have been marrying and society is rapidly graying, according to the ...

Japan is estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 births last year, down from more than two million a year in the 1970s Japan's prime minister says his country is on the brink of not being able to ...