This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It argues that social ageing is a phenomenon that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization and social modernization, bringing about changes in values, ins...
Japan in Depth: Population Decline Hinders Economy
The Japanese government, therefore, considers the decreasing number of marriages as the driving factor behind the country’s fertility decline. As of 2023, the number of marriages per 1,000 Japanese citizens was 3.9, less than half compared to that in the early 1970s. The average age of ...
The figures are bound to be welcome news for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has been faulted for a lack of progress on promised structural reforms needed to improve Japan's competitiveness and underpin growth in a country whose shrinking population is rapidly aging. The uptick in growt...
The pandemic has upended lives for almost the entire population, unlike March 2011, where people living in areas unaffected could rally to save those who faced devastation. "It might be difficult to ask households to evenly share the burden this time, given a widening ...
There is increasing concern that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could harm psychological health and exacerbate suicide risk. Here, based on month-level records of suicides covering the entire Japanese population in 1,848 administrative units, we assessed whether suicide mortality chan...
But on the sharp contrary US workforce experienced a heavy downfall.It was on its top on 93 at 7% & went down since.with this continious decline since march 93 to 97 the workforce reached its nadir at below 5% before march 98. it is quite clear that the workforce percentage graph is ...
The line graph compares the proportion of unemployed people in the US and Japan through the period from March 1993 to March 1999. It is obvious that the unemployment rates of these two countries changed oppositely - while it decreased in the USA, it increased in Japan. ...
The population of Japan in the twenty-first century has been essentially flat at a level around 127 million, peaking at 128,084,000 in 2008 and then shifting to a slight decline (MIC Web-Site 2013). However, owing to the change from extended families to nuclear families, the number of ...
Japan’s population has been in steady decline since its economic boom of the 1980s, with a fertility rate of 1.3 – far below the rate of 2.1 required to maintain a stable population. Deaths have also outpaced births in Japan for more than a decade, posing a growing problem for leaders...