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New data from the Japanese government shows that Japan’s population is continuing to spiral into an unsustainable meltdown. Japan’s birth data for 2023 has just been published by the government and it shows the shocking crisis of the nation’s falling population appears to be accelerating. As Slay News has previously reported, experts had already been warning that Japan was facing a critical situation as birth rates have been plummeting to unsustainable levels. The data for 2022 revealed that the ratio of births to deaths had reached a point that is a long way from the level that is required to...

This stands true for basically every industrialized/”liberal” country, and by liberal I mean so-called democracy. That’s because there is no way to incentivize women to have kids. The Guardian: South Korea’s demographic crisis has deepened with the release of data showing its birthrate – already the world’s lowest – fell to a new record low in 2023, despite billions of dollars in government schemes designed to persuade families to have more children. Reports that South Korea’s population had shrunk for the fourth straight year came soon after neighbouring Japan reported a record decline in its population last year, along with...

"It's a vast country, but there are not enough people. Not even mentioning the economy...We really need more people, this is obvious, everyone admits it," [Patriarch Kirill] said... Authorities have also started to restrict access to abortion pills and emergency contraception amid a surge in demand that followed the beginning of the war in Ukraine... Russia for decades has been experiencing a population decline, and this appears to have worsened amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, with high casualty rates and men fleeing the country to avoid being conscripted to fight... It is estimated that Russia's population will fall to...

Falling fertility rates in the United States will trigger a "calamitous effect" on the economy if it hasn’t already, experts told Fox News Digital. According to CDC data, between 2007 and 2022, the U.S. birth rate fell by 22%. Not a single state reported an increase in birth rates, although some experienced a slower decline than others.

In the past year, Russia had its most significant peacetime population decline of all time. Since last October, Russia's natural population has declined by 997,000, according to The Washington Post. ...

Adding a city the size of Philadelphia in just one year hardly means we are on the cusp of a decline in population, as The New York Times article suggests. A recent news article by Sabrina Tavernise in The New York Times warned U.S. population growth has slowed so much that the Wuhan virus might tip the country into population decline this year. It is the latest in a string of articles, editorials, and columns recently that mislead the public about the nation’s demographic future. Like other writers, Tavernise anchors her warnings by pointing out that the rate of U.S....

A speech by Don Feder at Ave Maria University, September 20, 2011 Hollywood has a penchant for blowing things up – especially the world. Since the 1950s, apocalyptic movies (which come with a variety of special effects) have been all the rage. We’ve met our doom through nuclear war (“On The Beach,” “The Day After”), a worldwide super-plague (“Twelve Monkeys” “The Stand”), global warming (“The Day After Tomorrow,” “Waterworld,”), the earth’s core over-heating (“2012,” “The Core”), overpopulation (“Soylent Green”), a comet striking the earth (“Deep Impact,” “Armageddon”), sentient machines taking over (the “Terminator” and “Matrix” series), rampaging simians (the “Planet...

TOKYO -- The decline in Japan's population could undermine the country's economic recovery unless workers perform more productively, and the new economy minister is taking aim at inefficient industries and workers. Hiroko Ota, who took office in September, faces an economy that is back on track after more than a decade in a slump. Japan's big structural problems have mostly been fixed: The banks have cleaned up their bad loans, and prices have stopped falling. Japan's economy grew at an average of more than 2% a year from 2003 through 2005, and it is expected to grow another 2% or...

MOSCOW, June 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 26 gave his approval to a government program encouraging what it calls "compatriots" living abroad to return to Russia. The six-year plan, under which repatriates will receive cash and social benefits, is part of an effort to reverse the country's dramatic population decline.

Two secondary schools in the south Wales valleys will close next week because of falling numbers of children. Bedwellty Comprehensive in Aberbargoed, with 400 pupils, and 277-pupil Vaynor and Penderyn High in Merthyr are the latest casualties of Wales' falling birth rates. Pupils will be moved to nearby schools. The Vaynor closure was confirmed last year when a Welsh Assembly Government letter said it was "educationally and financially unviable". According to official figures, the number of children in Wales is set to fall by over 11% in the next 20 years. We have not got the young people starting families...

When I was in college philosophy classes, one category of argument that was regularly disparaged was the "slippery slope." My professors, of course, worked under a handicap: they'd never encountered the phenomena of Dutch euthanasia: Doctors can help patients who ask for help to die even though they may not be ill but "suffering through living," concludes a three year inquiry commissioned by the Royal Dutch Medical Association. The report argues that no reason can be given to exclude situations of such suffering from a doctor’s area of competence. The conclusion has reopened a fierce debate over what constitutes grounds...

<p>NEW ORLEANS - In the run-up to this fall's statewide elections, Louisiana Republicans turned to top White House strategist Karl Rove for advice - and a little help raising money.</p> <p>The man credited with shaping President George W. Bush's politics and policies was the main speaker at an event held for major Republican contributors here Friday evening.</p>