My problem with this specific article is it is paywalled and so I'm not going to read it. More generally my complaint is that noting that Japan's birthrate bei

My problem with this specific article is it is paywalled and so I'm not going to read it. More generally my complaint is that noting that Japan's birthrate being down is that it is like observing the sky is blue. The globe has been seeing declining birth rates for 60 years. There are a large number of countries where birthrates are hitting record lows (picking some from a theme; the UK, US, Canada and Australia). It isn't news, focusing on Japan isn't interesting and picking a country where the official documents aren't in English makes it harder to research the truth if there is a disagreement on a point of fact.