Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

Both the elderly population and the aging rate were the highest since 1950, when such data became available. The number of women 65 and over was 20.53 million, or 32.3 percent of Japan’s female ...

During the period, Japan became one of the world's most rapidly aging societies. Its population also began to shrink in 2010. The number of babies born in the country last year was almost 30 ...

The number of people aged 75 or above grew by 700,000 to 20,777,000, accounting for a record 16.8 per cent of the entire population, the government said on Monday. About 29.3 per cent of Japan's ...