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Japan births fall to record low as population crisis deepens
CNN ^ | 3/1/23 | Jessie Yeung and Mayumi Maruyama,

Posted on 03/02/2023 1:59:10 PM PST by CFW

The number of births registered in Japan plummeted to another record low last year -- the latest worrying statistic in a decades-long decline that the country's authorities have failed to reverse despite their extensive efforts.

The country saw 799,728 births in 2022, the lowest number on record and the first ever dip below 800,000, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday. That number has nearly halved in the past 40 years; by contrast, Japan recorded more than 1.5 million births in 1982.

Japan also reported a record high for post-war deaths last year, at more than 1.58 million.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Japan
KEYWORDS: births; donatefreerepublic; japan; population
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The WEF and Gates, et al are worrying about population growth, even as world births keep dropping.
1 posted on 03/02/2023 1:59:10 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW
SATAN'S LATEST AND GREATEST PLOY . . .

SCREW UP THE SEXUAl BRAINS OF ALL KIDS AND THEY WILL NOT REPRODUCE . . .

DENYING GOD'S PLAN TO GO AND REPLENISH THE EARTH

AND REDUCING THE HUMAN POPULATION.


MAN IS GOD'S ULTIMATE JOY, AND SATAN HAS BEEN TRYING TO KILL US OFF SINCE HIS FALL.


FENTANYL, ANYONE ?

2 posted on 03/02/2023 2:06:19 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: CFW

Populations, like climate and many natural phenomena, rise and fall over time, for many reasons.

Highly indebted countries/governments with fiat currencies generally need ever-more people to service debt.

The WEF and neo-marxist globalist types will take that opportunity to push for open-borders, while at the same time they undermine native populations with massive debt, inflation, central planning, statist social-engineering and perverse sexual ideology


3 posted on 03/02/2023 2:07:32 PM PST by PGR88
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To: CFW

Wow - that’s a 2-1 margin


4 posted on 03/02/2023 2:09:33 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: CFW

Deaths are twice as high as births, and on the whole, that’s probably good for their society.
Also, Japan has been well aware of this for decades. I believe they have been re-shaping things to handle the demographic trends as best they can.

China, on the other hand, has an extremely rapidly aging society, a fragile political system, a fragile economy, and a damaged environment.

I don’t worry about Japan. But I think China shouldn’t buy green bananas.


5 posted on 03/02/2023 2:10:32 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: CFW

hard to believe there is no one to impregnate those Japanese Girl hotties.


6 posted on 03/02/2023 2:12:19 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ClearCase_guy

Japan may be able to manage their decline into a whimper rather than a bang and a lot of libtards are starting to trumpet the joys of degrowth and small stagnant populations but power and the future will always belong to those who are fruitful and multiply. It just comes with the territory.


7 posted on 03/02/2023 2:16:22 PM PST by jarwulf
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To: Lazamataz

ping


8 posted on 03/02/2023 2:17:55 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You volunteering?


9 posted on 03/02/2023 2:18:22 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I am taken, but I am sure some red blooded American boys would volunteer :)


10 posted on 03/02/2023 2:19:44 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: jarwulf
I think it's going to be interesting. The standard wisdom, for millennia, has been — be fruitful and multiply; more people is better.

But with AI and automation, I really think a significant percentage of any population will have nothing to contribute. They will consume, they will sit around, and they will be bored, and they will cause trouble.

I see the possibility that a well-developed society, with a small population, and a lot of machines, will do very well.

11 posted on 03/02/2023 2:20:03 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Wondered how long it'd take for a comment like that to show up   ;-)
12 posted on 03/02/2023 2:21:04 PM PST by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not to worry. Shima guni-island country. They hate all ‘outsiders’. The old folks die. That allows the older generation to multiply. Maybe not now. The people are robots/ants. They’ll get by as long as the Chicoms don’t concentrate on payback.


13 posted on 03/02/2023 2:23:48 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Japan can survive a declining population, it won’t survive being demographically replaced by foreigners which is what the WEF types want.


14 posted on 03/02/2023 2:24:25 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: CFW

The Japanese seem determined to self-exterminate. Why?!


15 posted on 03/02/2023 2:26:50 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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“even as world births keep dropping”

First world births keep dropping. The rest of the world, not so much.


16 posted on 03/02/2023 2:27:58 PM PST by Boogieman
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“Deaths are twice as high as births, and on the whole, that’s probably good for their society.”

It’s certainly going to be good for people who don’t want to live in a cubicle in a highrise for their whole life.


17 posted on 03/02/2023 2:29:57 PM PST by Boogieman
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As far back as I can remember I seen propaganda about “over population” being the biggest threat to the Planet.
It’s going to take a years of “big family” propaganda to turn that around.


18 posted on 03/02/2023 2:30:01 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Thats what I dont get, those girls are gorgeous. Whats wrong with their men?


19 posted on 03/02/2023 2:30:56 PM PST by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: PGR88
Populations, like climate and many natural phenomena, rise and fall over time, for many reasons.

It's hard to recover from a downward spiral, a spiral not related to disease or famine on natural disaster such as an Ice Age e.g. The future belongs to those who show up.

20 posted on 03/02/2023 2:32:01 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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