The overall population of Japan, including foreign nationals, shrank by 0.4%. While the foreign population increased by 11% to reach 3 million, it was insufficient to offset the decrease in ...

This graph shows that 84.8% of foreign residents ... This is another point of contrast with the Japanese population, which grew in only 6 of the 47 prefectures, while the foreign population ...

18, Respect-for-the-Aged Day, show that those aged 80 and older for the first time represent 10 percent of the population. An estimated 36.23 million people in Japan were aged 65 or older as of Sept.