The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for a ninth straight year to a record low, according to health ministry data released Thursday. The faster-than-predicted decline suggests government measures have not effectively addressed the country's fast-aging and declining population.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's party and a coalition partner cut the draft budget for the next fiscal year by 343.7 billion yen ($2.30 billion), a document showed on Friday.
Japanese stocks headed for their biggest monthly drop since 2022 as a selloff in chip-related firms accelerated and concerns over the global economic impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs deepened.
"I'm scared…but all I want to do is to talk about the truth", Shiori says in the opening scene of her Oscar-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries. Shiori became the face of Japan's MeToo movement after she accused a prominent journalist Noriyuki Yamaguchi of rape.