Japan demographic crisis

For all the focus on rising budgets and offensive strike capabilities, a far more mundane concern is posing a dire threat to Japan’s security.

A new DRI Trendlines looks at demographics of three leading Asian powers, and how key variables paint a complicated and, in large parts, pessimistic picture.

Criminalizing asylum seekers and stigmatizing immigration is only worsening Japan’s demographic crisis.

Aging, shrinking, its top position reserved exclusively for men – Japan's monarchy is a neat microcosm of society as a whole.

A small, aging town grapples with the financial lure of storing radioactive waste underground. 

The demographic situation in the Asia-Pacific is quite unlike that of any other epoch of geostrategic competition.

The coronavirus economic fallout adds new challenges to tackling Japan’s worrying fertility projections.

The aging crisis will have major impacts on Japan's economy. What can the Abe government do to mitigate the damage?

A new immigration reform package still doesn't go far enough to meet Japan's needs.

Economist Jesper Koll on what to expect from Abenomics and Japan's economy in 2019.

Will developing Asia get old before it gets rich?