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Time running out for shrinking Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Battered by economic problems, weighed down by crushing public debt and skippered by a lumbering gerontocracy that seems powerless to stop the country's slow decline, it's tough times for leaky old Japan Inc. Now the country faces potentially its most serious problem yet - it is quickly running out of babies.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 9 , September 2004 , e4
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Notes

1. See “Japan's declining birthrate accelerates,” Japan Times, June 11, 2004. Statistics released in June by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.

2. Alex Kerr, (2000) Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan, Penguin.

3. Survey by Businesswoman's Association. Available online at: http://www.bwasa.co.za (24/7/2004).

4. See “Gaikokujin ukeire seisaku wa hyakunen no kei de aru,” (A Long-Term Vision for the Admission of Foreigners), Chuo Koron, February 2004.

5. Published as “Still angry after all these years,” South China Morning Post, April 6, 2003.

6. See David McNeill, “Japan's refugee policies failing,” Japan Times, March 23, 2003.

7. See also, Hiroshi Matsubara, “Kurdish asylum-seekers stage sit-in in Shibuya, Japan Times, July 17, 2004.