Japan’s Push to Boost Birth Rates Is Falling Short for Families
A pedestrian walks past an angel statue at the corner of a building in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan, in 2018.
Photographer: Takaaki Iwabu/BloombergHi, it’s Kanoko in Tokyo. Last year, Japan had its fewest births in recorded history, meaning the country that’s already one of the oldest in the world, is getting older. But before we look more closely at that...
Last week, Japan announced it had welcomed fewer than 800,000 babies in 2022, the lowest number since record-keeping began in 1899.