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Re:Japan’s population fell by 800k last year as demographic ... by twobitshifter on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:36AM (#36920170)
Japan isn’t naturally controlling its population, there’s no agency behind its declining birth rate, unlike somewhere like China where the one child policy was a purposeful government population control. The Japan population is not tied in any way to Japan’s resource limitations.

On top of that, it is harder to make babies now than ever, given declining fertility rates.

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Re:Japan’s population fell by 800k last year as demographic ... by oska on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:03PM (#36927026)
> there’s no agency behind its declining birth rate

There's the agency of every fertile Japanese couple deciding whether to have children and how many. That's a lot more natural than an extremist government imposed policy like China's One Child Policy.

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