Yoshiharu Izaki, mayor of Nagareyama, has helped the city gain prominence in Japan as one of the few areas with a rising birth rate and population, bucking the national trend of decline.
Photographer: Kosuke Okahara/BloombergThe Mayor Helping to Boost Birth Rates in Japan
Yoshiharu Izaki, the mayor of Nagareyama, turned around the town’s declining birth rates to buck the national trend with child-friendly policies that are being replicated elsewhere in Japan.
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