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Japan's population is shrinking. Here's what it means – and what some are doing about it.
Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...
Why Japan's birth rate is falling and what the country's doing to try and reverse the population decline
Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and ...
China Daily1d
Fewer young people tying the knot as perceptions of marriage change
"Nowadays, master's students are already 25 or 26 by the time they graduate, and PhD graduates are usually close to 30 — even ...
Global News - Inquirer.net on MSN8d
In South Korea’s shrinking cities, prisons bring hope to locals
TAEBAEK, Gangwon - Mr Kim Kyung-rae, a 60-year-old taxi driver in Taebaek, rarely picks up young passengers. Most of his ...
These hotels are enlisting travelers to help support Japanese crafts
From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these ...
What Cancer Taught Me About Beauty
In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Suleika Jaouad reflects on how the devastating effects of the disease changed her ...
Traditional Japanese crafts are at risk. Here’s how travelers can help.
From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these ...
Marriage registrations down in China in Q1 amid demographic, perception changes
This photo taken with a mobile phone shows Sui Yanling providing pre-marriage counseling in the marriage registration center in Daxing District of ...
Bangkok Post18h
More Chinese leave the knot untied as marriage registrations drop
As marriage registrations in China continued to decline in the first quarter of the year, local governments have dangled cash ...
The Kathmandu Post on MSN2d
Climate crisis is uprooting villages in Mustang
As water sources dry up due to erratic snowfall and rising temperatures, villagers in the high-altitude Himalayan region ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer8d
In South Korea’s shrinking cities, prisons bring hope to locals
“We used to have 120,000 people back then ... won in support funds and 20 per cent of plant revenue to the host village. Nine villages applied, and Daeya-ri was chosen with 97 per cent resident ...