STORY: Call it a sign of the times. In Japan, adult diapers are starting to outsell those for babies. That as birthrates there plummet and society ages. Around 29% of the country’s population is now ...

Faced with a swelling mountain of used adult diapers, Japanese manufacturers are finding new ways to recycle them -- ...

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TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) - A large metal arm in a Japanese factory swept a cluster of fluffy white fabric rectangles off a carousel into a group to be wrapped in plastic before packaging for shipment.

That’s how the Tokyo-based company Oji Holdings described the Japanese adult diaper economy last week. The company announced in a press release that it would be terminating its “domestic disposal ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co. will sell its Japanese adult diaper business to Daio Paper Corp. <3880.T>, exiting a market that is growing 5-10 percent each year as the population grays. P&G, ...

Global fertility has been falling for decades, though the problem is often most acute in industrialized nations with high standards of living. Catholic leaders have for years been warning of the ...