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Tomohiro Sawai and Ken Nakao / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
19:05 JST,
March 8, 2025
While a pessimistic forecast says that Japan as a whole will wane due to the decline in its population, the situation in Kyushu, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Okinawa Prefecture paints a different picture.