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Want To File For Divorce In China? You Might Need A Booking Agent
The 2024 divorce rate in China is expected to hit 2.6 per 1,000 people, against a low of 2.0 during the CCOVID-19 pandemic. This compares with the most recent rates of 1.5 in Japan and 1.8 in South Korea.
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Love Motel Converted To Funeral Home In Japan Amid Population Crisis: "Metaphor Of Decline"
Reactions poured in from social media users who described the building as a metaphor for Japan's demographic crisis.
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Defence "Geek" Shigeru Ishiba Is New Japan Prime Minister
Japan got a new prime minister on Tuesday, with Shigeru Ishiba setting out to jumpstart a lacklustre economy, defuse a demographic crisis and build an Asian NATO to face down China.
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Japan Might Have Driverless Bullet Trains By Mid-2030s
Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country's demographic crisis.
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Japan Man, 89, Uses ChatGPT As "Mentor" To Create Apps For Elderly
Japanese 89-year-old Tomiji Suzuki is making apps for the fast-growing elderly demographic, using ChatGPT to fine-tune his skills.
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Japan's Elderly Population Living Alone To Jump 47% By 2050: Research
The number of senior citizens living alone in Japan will likely jump 47% by 2050, a government-affiliated research institute said on Friday, underscoring the heavy burden the country's demographic change will exert on its social security system.
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Japan Village, Battling Demographic Crisis, Celebrates Birth Of Baby In Over 20 Years
In 2022, less than 800,000 babies were born in Japan and the indigenous population shrank by over half a million.
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US, China Ageing Rapidly, India Getting Younger, Says Sushma Swaraj
Underlining that countries such as the US, Japan and China are ageing rapidly, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Monday said India is getting younger and this demographic perspective offers it an "unprecedented edge" that will help in building a "New Young India" by 2022.
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While US, Japan, China Are Ageing, India Getting Younger: Sushma Swaraj
Underlining that countries such as the US, Japan and China are ageing rapidly, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Monday said India is getting younger and this demographic perspective offers it an "unprecedented edge" that will help in building a "New Young India" by 2022.
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Births In Japan Expected To Fall Below Million For First Time This Year
The number of births in Japan is likely to fall below a million this year for the first time since data became available in 1899, the government said on Thursday, reflecting a fast-ageing society and the high cost of child care.
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Japan Has A Worrying Number Of Virgins, Government Finds
Japan's demographic challenges are well-known: It's home to the world's oldest population and has a shrinking birthrate and an astonishing number of single people. And it seems that, despite government efforts to incentivize marriage and child-rearing, things aren't quite trending in the right direction.
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Japan's Demographic Crisis: Free Cows to Reverse Shrinking Population
The tiny Japanese community of Mishima was desperate to reverse its shrinking population so officials came up with what they hoped would be a game-changing plan: free cows.
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Want To File For Divorce In China? You Might Need A Booking Agent
The 2024 divorce rate in China is expected to hit 2.6 per 1,000 people, against a low of 2.0 during the CCOVID-19 pandemic. This compares with the most recent rates of 1.5 in Japan and 1.8 in South Korea.
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Love Motel Converted To Funeral Home In Japan Amid Population Crisis: "Metaphor Of Decline"
Reactions poured in from social media users who described the building as a metaphor for Japan's demographic crisis.
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Defence "Geek" Shigeru Ishiba Is New Japan Prime Minister
Japan got a new prime minister on Tuesday, with Shigeru Ishiba setting out to jumpstart a lacklustre economy, defuse a demographic crisis and build an Asian NATO to face down China.
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Japan Might Have Driverless Bullet Trains By Mid-2030s
Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country's demographic crisis.
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Japan Man, 89, Uses ChatGPT As "Mentor" To Create Apps For Elderly
Japanese 89-year-old Tomiji Suzuki is making apps for the fast-growing elderly demographic, using ChatGPT to fine-tune his skills.
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Japan's Elderly Population Living Alone To Jump 47% By 2050: Research
The number of senior citizens living alone in Japan will likely jump 47% by 2050, a government-affiliated research institute said on Friday, underscoring the heavy burden the country's demographic change will exert on its social security system.
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Japan Village, Battling Demographic Crisis, Celebrates Birth Of Baby In Over 20 Years
In 2022, less than 800,000 babies were born in Japan and the indigenous population shrank by over half a million.
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US, China Ageing Rapidly, India Getting Younger, Says Sushma Swaraj
Underlining that countries such as the US, Japan and China are ageing rapidly, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Monday said India is getting younger and this demographic perspective offers it an "unprecedented edge" that will help in building a "New Young India" by 2022.
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While US, Japan, China Are Ageing, India Getting Younger: Sushma Swaraj
Underlining that countries such as the US, Japan and China are ageing rapidly, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Monday said India is getting younger and this demographic perspective offers it an "unprecedented edge" that will help in building a "New Young India" by 2022.
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Births In Japan Expected To Fall Below Million For First Time This Year
The number of births in Japan is likely to fall below a million this year for the first time since data became available in 1899, the government said on Thursday, reflecting a fast-ageing society and the high cost of child care.
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Japan Has A Worrying Number Of Virgins, Government Finds
Japan's demographic challenges are well-known: It's home to the world's oldest population and has a shrinking birthrate and an astonishing number of single people. And it seems that, despite government efforts to incentivize marriage and child-rearing, things aren't quite trending in the right direction.
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Japan's Demographic Crisis: Free Cows to Reverse Shrinking Population
The tiny Japanese community of Mishima was desperate to reverse its shrinking population so officials came up with what they hoped would be a game-changing plan: free cows.
