Japan’s population shrank by 0.7 percent in 2023, although the net loss of 861,237 included a record high inflow of 329,535 foreign nationals. The non-Japanese segment of the population hit its highest level yet, but the birthrate continued to slow and areas such as the northeastern prefec...
In 2023, about 2.7 percent of the population in Japan were foreign nationals, up from about 1.7 percent in 2014.
About 3% of Japan's total population was of foreign nationality. The number of foreign residents exceeded 3.4 million for the first time in 2023.
PopulationProjectionsforJapan(2023revision):2021to2070 KeyMessages Japan’spopulationisprojectedtodecreaseby30%,andthepopulationaged65andovertomakeupabout40%ofthepopulationby2070.Whiletheprojectedfuturetotalfertilityratesarelowerthanthoseinthepreviousrevisionreleasedin2017,thepaceofpopulationdeclinewouldslowslightlyduet...
Setting Population-based retrospective cohort study using annual health check-up data for residents of Iki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Participants A total of 5330 Japanese individuals (≥30years old) without diabetes at baseline were analysed. Primary and secondary outcome measures Serum ALT ...
[关键句】John Wilmoth, director of the UN Population Division, said high life expectancy(预期寿命) and very low levels of birth rates in European countries, Japan, North America, Australia and New Zealand are driving the tendency toward rapid population aging, and eventually potential population ...
We thank T. Aoi for kind support of the study. This research was supported by the Tailor-Made Medical Treatment program (the BioBank Japan Project) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), ME...
Other countries in the region also face long-term population problems. Japan's birth rate was 6.3 per 1,000 people in 2022, while South Korea's rate was 4.9. "As we have observed again and again from other low fertility countries, fertility decline is often very difficult to reverse," Un...
The previous comparative study of AD dementia between the US and Japan in the ADNI projects reported that MCI in the Japanese population shows similar progression profile as MCI in North America in terms of cognitive function [19]. We moreover validated the AD PRS using independent genomic data...
Yet the demise of Kawakami is emblematic of a problem that goes far beyond the Japanese countryside. The problem for Japan is: people in the cities aren’t having babies either. The Yokobori family. Futa Nagao for CNN ‘Time is running out to procreate’ ...