TOKYO – Japan's population has grown at the slowest pace since 1920 as the rapidly aging country grapples with extremely low birthrates, a census report showed Friday. Japan, the world's 10th most ...

Japan's latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan's population stood at 127.1 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Century-old footage of Empress Teimei and Crown Prince Hirohito was recently discovered at a university in Ise, giving modern ...

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Art history doesn’t have to live in the past, as proved by the Flux Factory exhibition Ero Guro Nansensu, which closes today. Mavo was only active from 1923 to 1926, yet the movement’s artists were ...

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Re “Japanese Musicians Still Turn to the West,” by James R. Oestreich (Critic’s Notebook, Sept. 13): Western music in Japan has an even longer history than Americans may realize. Emperor Meiji, in the ...

In “The Islands and the Stars,” Subodhana Wijeyeratne charts how Tokyo’s space program has changed over the past century.