In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in the country, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline in child births.

Using prefectural data, we study the potential impact on wage dynamics of the planned minimum wage increase policy in Japan. Our main result is that stepping up minimum wage growth from 2 to the ...

A meaningful and sustainable rise in wages is a key goal for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, while the Bank of Japan says it’s a crucial factor for normalizing monetary policy. Real wages ...

With birth rates falling and immigration facing political pushback, what does that mean for future economic growth and equity ...

The birth rate plummeted for the ninth consecutive year with more than two deaths for every baby born in 2024. Aware that to ...

The centrality of political arguments opposing immigration depends upon ignoring how modern capitalism uses exploited and ...

In fact, industries with a bigger share of immigrant workers tend to have lower wages overall. According to the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization that focuses on immigration and ...

and discusses practical problems in applying wage targets and monitoring real wage developments. A key policy conclusion is that because the accuracy of real wage targets is inevitably suspect, ...

A partnership between Eisai and Lifenet that aims to improve insurance cover for people with early dementia has generated its first policy ... for people in Japan with dementia and other ageing ...

but Japan reached that level three years ahead of the projection. The fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, dropped to 1.34 in ...