Japan's ruling coalition suffered the widely expected loss of its majority in the July 20 election, as young voters shifted ...

(Corrects MSCI index rise to 0.75%, not 75%, in paragraph 4) By Marc Jones and Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar sank to a more than three-year low even as global shares hit ...

Opinion Falling birth rates don’t have to be a crisis. Just look at Japan. A falling birth rate doesn’t mean the end of civilization. Just look at how Japan is handling it.

Japan is driving Asia's M&A rebound in 2025 with a record $232 billion worth of deals in the first half, and bankers expect the trend to sustain fuelled by multi-billion dollar take-private ...

Non-profit groups have seen those as young as 12 seek help, though most of the pregnant teens are aged 16 to 18.  Read more ...

The UN’s model hasn’t adjusted to the new normal. If a country has ever experienced a fertility increase (as Australia and France and Belarus have), then its birth rate is assumed to be stable.

Russia's unemployment rate, seen by the central bank as a key indicator of economic overheating, hit the new all-time low level of 2.2% of the workforce in May, statistical data showed on ...

Australia’s birth rate fell to 1.7 in 2001, only to bounce back to 2.0 in 2008. France’s rate followed a similar trajectory during the same period, as did Italy’s and Sweden’s.

Nomura Holdings Inc. more than doubled Kentaro Okuda’s pay last year, rewarding the chief executive officer for guiding Japan’s largest brokerage to a record annual profit.

The U.S. birth rate fell to an almost record low last year, per preliminary data. A vital statistics rapid release report published earlier this year by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

NEW YORK -- The S&P 500 closed at an all-time record high on Friday afternoon, extending breakneck gains achieved in recent weeks as investors shrugged off concerns about newly imposed tariffs and ...