Tokyo has been toppled as the world’s most populous city, with the Indonesian capital of Jakarta now ruling the roost, ...

Jakarta ranked as the world's largest city with 41.9 million inhabitants followed by Dhaka, while Tokyo slipped to third against the backdrop of population growth in the developing nations and Japan's ...

The population of Japan's capital has increased more slowly than those of Indonesia and Bangladesh, causing its ranking among the world's most ...

Japan is facing a population crisis—so Tokyo, its largest city, will try to solve the problem with something new: a four-day workweek. Starting in April, the Tokyo Metropolitan government, one of the ...

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Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic ...