Japan's birth rate is set to hit another record low ... "If our society can make having kids feel like the natural thing to do, I think the idea of becoming parents will be more attractive ...

Japan - population 125 million - is estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 births last year. In the 1970s, that figure was more than two million. Birth rates are slowing in many countries ...

Japan has one of the world's lowest fertility rates Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love. From next year ...

Okinawa had been Japan’s only prefecture with natural population growth ... or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, was 1.80 in 2021, the highest ...