Japan’s perilously low birthrate a forgotten election issue
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Indeed, extremely distant concern given the ingredients the politicians have to cook with this time: rising prices despite being decades into a deflationary cycle.
The young people of Japan have a pretty bleak future ahead, getting to pay for a massive aging population and their health costs. There’s barely motivation to keep working, let alone have kids.