An elderly woman shops at a grilled chicken shop in the Sugamo area of Tokyo on May 22,2024. An elderly woman shops at a grilled chicken shop in the Sugamo area of Tokyo on May 22, 2024. Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP via Getty Images
Tokyo, Japan – Japan’s birth rate has hit a new record low, sparking renewed concerns about the nation’s economic future and social stability. Preliminary data released by the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry on May 29, 2024, indicates a further decline in the number of births, intensifying a demographic crisis decades in the making. The latest figures show approximately 772,000 births in 2023, the lowest since records
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