{"id":5125,"date":"2026-04-14T04:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/5125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:02:16","slug":"tokyo-sees-first-increase-in-japanese-births-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/5125\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo sees first increase in Japanese births in 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan News<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>14 Apr, 2026 12:32 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Tokyo has recorded its first birth-rate increase in a decade, reversing years of decline. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The number of Japanese babies born in Tokyo from January through November of 2025 rose 0.7% year-on-year to 77,375 and the total for the year is expected to surpass that for 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         It will be the first time in 10 years that the number of Japanese births in Tokyo has<br \/>\n         increased compared with the previous year.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike announced the finding at a regular press conference on Friday (local time). \u201cWe also expect a significant increase in the number of marriages for the second consecutive year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">She touted the effectiveness of measures taken under her administration. \u201cThe Tokyo metropolitan government has been working to provide seamless support so that people who wish to marry and have children can take those first steps with peace of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">The total number of births for all of 2025 is expected to be announced in early June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Japan News Washington Post\u00b7 14 Apr, 2026 12:32 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4752,4743,4758,4750,4754,4746,4742,4747,2488,802,4748,96,4741,4749,8,17,1396,4745,4751,4740,4756,4757,1602,52,4755,222,4753,4744],"class_list":{"0":"post-5125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tokyo","8":"tag-4752","9":"tag-4743","10":"tag-4758","11":"tag-4750","12":"tag-4754","13":"tag-babies","14":"tag-births","15":"tag-born","16":"tag-expected","17":"tag-first","18":"tag-from","19":"tag-in","20":"tag-increase","21":"tag-january","22":"tag-japan","23":"tag-japanese","24":"tag-november","25":"tag-number","26":"tag-rose","27":"tag-sees","28":"tag-surpass","29":"tag-that","30":"tag-through","31":"tag-tokyo","32":"tag-total","33":"tag-year","34":"tag-yearonyear","35":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}