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☆ Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And that’s a problem
  + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Chris Lau | Mayumi Maruyama | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
“This is a symptom of Japan’s population decline,” said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba. “It’s not really a problem of building too many houses” but “a problem of not having enough people,” he said. According to figures compiled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 14% of all residential properties in Japan are vacant. “When an earthquake or a tsunami occurs, there is a possibility that vacant houses will block evacuation routes as they break down and get destroyed,” he said. In other rural areas with a high concentration of vacant houses, akiya have stalled development, the professor said.
Persons: ”, Jeffrey Hall, “ It’s, don’t, Akio Kon, it’s, “ They’re, Buddhika Weerasinghe, Yuki Akiyama, Akiyama, ” Akiyama Organizations: CNN, Kanda University of International Studies, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Kanda University, “, Bloomberg, Getty, Ministry, Internal Affairs, Communications, Tokyo City University, Homes Locations: Japan, New York City, Tokyo, Kyoto, Chiba, Kanda, Yato, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa prefecture, Tambasasayama, Noto, Ishikawa, Europe, West, “
☆ GM and Honda team up on autonomous ride service for Japan
  + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —General Motors and Honda, along with Cruise — GM’s autonomous driving subsidiary — have agreed to create a driverless ride-hailing company in Japan. The company will use the Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle to give rides in Tokyo, Japan’s largest city. The Cruise Origin, an electric vehicle GM builds at a factory in Detroit, has no steering wheel, pedals or space for a driver. GM said it plans to build 500 of the vehicles for the Tokyo ride-hailing service, which is expected to be the first autonomous ride-hailing service in Japan, according to the companies. “The range of situations our [autonomous vehicles] have encountered is quite broad,” Voigt said, noting obstacles such as jugglers on the streets of San Francisco and donkeys in Austin.
Persons: Cruise, Honda, General Motors Cruise, Kyle Voigt, Voigt, ” Voigt Organizations: CNN —, Motors, Honda, —, Cruise, GM, General Motors, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Traffic, Administration Locations: Japan, Tokyo, Japan’s, Detroit, California, San Francisco, Phoenix, Austin, United States
☆ Japan says one in 10 residents are now octogenarians as nation turns gray
  + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Jessie Yeung Junko Ogura | Jessie Yeung | Junko Ogura | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Deaths have outpaced births in Japan for more than a decade, posing a growing problem for leaders of the world’s third-largest economy. The country also has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, contributing to the ballooning elderly population. To some extent, that messaging has worked: there are now a record 9.12 million elderly workers in Japan, a number that has grown for 19 consecutive years. Workers age 65 and up now make up more than 13% of the national workforce, the internal affairs ministry said Monday. Japan’s elderly employment rate is among the highest across major economies, it added.
Persons: Fumio Organizations: Tokyo CNN, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Workers Locations: Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan
☆ Japan July core CPI rises 3.1% yr/yr, slowing from June
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
FILE PHOTO-People shop daily necessities at a market in Tokyo, Japan March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Androniki Christodoulou/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsTOKYO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.1% in July from a year earlier, data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications showed on Friday. The so-called core-core inflation index, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 4.3% year-on-year. The rise in the core consumer price index, which includes oil products but excludes volatile fresh food prices, matched the median market forecast and followed a 3.3% increase in the previous month. For the full tables, go to the ministry's website at: http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/index.htmReporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto Editing by Chang-Ran KimOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Androniki, Tetsushi, Chang, Ran Kim Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Communications, Thomson Locations: Tokyo, Japan
☆ Japan's population falls while foreign residents rise to record
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
TOKYO, July 26 (Reuters) - The population of Japanese citizens decreased at the fastest pace ever while the number of foreign residents rose to a record at nearly 3 million people, government data showed on Wednesday. The data underscores that foreign nationals are playing an even bigger role in Japanese society to make up for a shrinking population. For the first time, the number of Japanese residents fell in all 47 prefectures, the data showed. Japan's population peaked in 2008 and has declined since then because of its low birth rate, which hit a record low last year. Tokyo was the home to the largest share of foreign residents with 4.2% of the population, or 581,112 people.
Persons: Fumio Kishida, Satoshi Sugiyama, Christian Schmollinger Organizations: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Thomson Locations: TOKYO, Japan, Tokyo
☆ Why Do Cats Hold Such Mythic Power in Japan?
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Hanya Yanagihara | Kyoko Hamada | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Now the sun was fading, and Mihoko and I went to a coffeehouse to discuss the lack of cats. (Later, I also thought that the cats’ relative scarcity made them more precious; at one number, they were curiosities. Or maybe, even, it was possible to believe that the cats knew something we didn’t. Although Tokyo, with its 14 million residents, remains one of the largest cities in the world, other parts of Japan are emptying of humans. But although the humans hadn’t been able to replace themselves after a certain point, the cats had had no such problems.
☆ Japan Nov household spending unexpectedly falls 1.2% year/year
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
TOKYO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Japanese household spending fell 1.2% in November from a year earlier, government data showed on Tuesday, versus a median market forecast for a 0.5% gain. On a seasonally-adjusted month-on-month basis, household spending decreased 0.9% in November, compared with an estimated 0.5% decline. To view the data on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, click here: http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/kakei/index.htmReporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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