Japan’s fertility has declined in the past three decades. Raising Japan’s fertility rate is a key policy priority for the government. Using cross-country analysis and case studies, this paper finds ...

Japan has been trying to boost its fertility rate for 30 years. Now the rest of the rich world is, too. Japan has been trying to boost its fertility rate for 30 years. Now the rest of the rich world ...

Japan’s fertility rate, which has seen a precipitous fall for many years, has reached another record low as the government ramps up efforts to encourage young people to get married and start families ...

Japan and South Korea continue to pour funding into programs they hope will stabilize their falling fertility rates, with one demographer telling Newsweek he believes it's too late to avert a ...

TOKYO — Japan's fertility rate rose last year for the first time in six years, the government said Wednesday. The fertility rate — the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime — ...

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Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Government has expanded its subsidy programme for elective egg freezing in an effort to combat the country's declining fertility rate, but strict regulations restrict access ...

In the eastern hemisphere, Japan faces a similar problem. Japan’s fertility rate hit an all-time low of approximately 1.3 children per woman in 2005. Acknowledging the demographic and economic crisis ...

Creating a supportive environment for women through family-friendly policies, flexible labor markets, and progressive social norms will yield economic gains Women in Japan and Korea face especially ...

Global fertility has been falling for decades, though the problem is often most acute in industrialized nations with high standards of living. Catholic leaders have for years been warning of the ...