SUNAGAWA, Japan >> A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 30% of Japan's population is 65 or older, and many still work.Francesco Riccardo Iacomino/Getty Images Japan has adapted to ...

Japan is facing an aging crisis—today, one in four people are aged 65 or older, and by 2030, that figure will rise to one in three. As the nation grapples with the challenges of a super-aging society, ...

The number of births in Japan fell for the 10th straight year in 2025, official data showed on Thursday, highlighting the challenges for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Successive Japanese leaders -- ...

The world’s population is getting older in what the United Nations calls an “irreversible global trend,” driven by longer lives and smaller families. The number of people aged 65 and older is expected ...

Kishida Fumio announced on August 14 that he would not run in next month’s election for the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), thus drawing to a close his approximately 1,000-day ...

(CNN) — Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over 80, due to a combination of low fertility rates and high life expectancy. This has a direct ...

While traversing the narrow, winding roads outside the Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko, I stopped by a farm with a view of Mount Fuji, where a few locals were picking fruit. Most were older, and one ...