Lower and lower.
, Japan is significantly short of the approximately two births per woman mark needed to sustain a stable population. Simply put, the young aren't procreating enough.
The economic implications are manifold, but the fact is that as the population gets older by the year, so too does the workforce dwindle. Last year's alarming nadir led to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to stress in January that "Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society,"The Japanese government has tried to countervail a domestic decline by slightly loosening its closed door immigration policy.
. Over 1.2 million small businesses are stuck with septuagenarian owners without a successor, and even the Yakuza are hurting for young blood.in April to oversee the birth rate and child rearing crisis — but reversing a trend decades in the making won't be easy.
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