Japan ’s already alarming demographic crisis has now hit a worrying new milestone. For the first time in the country’s ...

The total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, fell to 1.26 in 2022. It’s the lowest number since 1947, the starting year for ...

For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older. National data also shows 29.1% of the ...

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SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve’s interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.

Sep. 26—Teri Ooms feels encouraged about the state of the local job picture as the region's unemployment rate continues to drop. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre ...

Japan's Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve's interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve's interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve's interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.