The defence ministry and Akita prefecture’s government signed an agreement on the troop dispatch on Wednesday afternoon, ...

The region of East Africa comprises countries such as Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Mauritius, Djibouti, Réunion, Mayotte, ...

In an exclusive interview with Ajay Jain, Chairman of IIM Calcutta Innovation Park (IIMCIP), Business World explores how a ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Beneath the chants of Exorcism in Japan, something stirs. The dead still listen, and the living still try to talk them down.

Sanae Takaichi (right), president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of the opposition Japan Innovation Party, hold policy talks in Tokyo on Saturday. KYODO ...

Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate.

Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves through economies.

Following Japan, Trump will visit South Korea to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Gyeongju.

One person has died and more than 50 people have been rescued after an unprecedented storm system triggered devastating flooding in Western Alaska communities, displacing more than a thousand people ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has on behalf of the government and the people of South Africa, extended his warmest congratulations to Ms Sanae Takaichi on her election as Prime Minister of Japan, becoming ...