The figure, which includes births to foreign nationals, represents an increase of 2,788 from the same period in 2025, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, Kyodo reported. Japan has experienced a long-term decline in births since 1973, when 2.09 million babies were born during the peak of the country’s second baby boom. The […]
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