Japan is sprinting to avoid dire official projections for mid-century, rolling out a sweeping expansion of pro-natal policies over the past year. Despite tens of billions of dollars in pro-natal ...

Back in 1992, before they had even qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, and at a time when football in the country was in the doldrums, Japan announced their "100 Year Vision" to win ...

If people or kids do not exist, then they cannot contribute to a nations economy. These will be huge effects by 2050 and even larger by 2100 and beyond. All of the forecasts that China and India will ...

Japan would need to increase its electricity output by between 35% and 50% by 2050 to meet a proportionate surge in demand, a government projection has revealed. Japan’s electricity output for this ...

The 35MWp Isohara solar farm in Japan. Image: BayWa r.e. Japan will need to have 689GW of total installed capacity for solar and wind power generation by 2050 to reach the goal of net zero, according ...

In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about ...

TOKYO, May 29 (Reuters) - Japan's wind power body has set a mid-century goal to increase capacity to 140 gigawatts (GW) from less than 5 GW now, it said on Monday, to meet a third of the country's ...

.RUSUTSU, Japan (AP) – The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but ...