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Researchers estimate Japan's population will plunge slightly more than 30 percent to about 87 million by 2070. The forecast was released Wednesday by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research based on the 2020 census. As of 2020, about 126.15 million people were living in the country, including non-Japanese. The figure is expected

Kishida was visiting the Saikazaki port in Wakayama prefecture to cheer his ruling party's candidate in a local election...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in front of the headquarters of Bank of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturers' sentiment soured in the first quarter to its worst level in more than two years, eclipsing an uptick in

Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (formerly known as AdPushup), a person familiar with the matter said, delivering 40 times return to a number of angel investors in the startup that began its journey in India. The

Japan is joining a growing list of countries exploring the possibility of adopting a digital currency, with country’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), announcing that it would launch a pilot to test a “digital yen” in April.  The move comes more than two years after the BoJ made its first step in the

The VC's investments include 2C2P, Coda Payments, and GMO PaymentGateway Singapore...

While the Japanese government’s pension fund, the largest in the world posted its losses, there are a number of global business outfits that are recording similar losses. As the global economy continues to fight for resilience, the world’s largest pension fund, the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has recorded another quarter of loss as

TEPCO Power Grid is deploying bitcoin mining operations across Japan in a partnership with a local semiconductor company to capitalize on excess power...