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Japan’s ‘miracle town,’ with soaring birthrate amid demographic crisis
- karaokeyoga 3y agoTwo (minor) unusual things I noticed in this article: "Schoolchildren learn how to cross the street safely in Japan" – this is an ancient image, judging from the cars. Also, there's no mention of which prefecture (i.e. "state") that Nagi lies in. It's Okayama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagi,_Okayama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagi,_Okayama).
- mvncleaninst 3y ago> One Tokyo newspaper for grade schoolers declared last month, “Emergency! Fewer children,” warning that the national birth rate had halved in four decades. On a recent field trip to her workplace, elementary school students peppered Iwasawa with questions about the difficulties of raising a family. It's weird reading this, like the political consensus is approaching panic. Makes you wonder if the US will ever get to this point, doesn't seem like it
- hindsightbias 3y agoFar easier to focus on those immigrants than get the incelosphere to procreate.