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Re:What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants? by chainmail2029 on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:40AM (#48408047)
>But a strict zero-immigration policy collides with one terrifying reality: No country in history has successfully reversed a falling fertility rate, and Japan shows zero signs of breaking that trend.

Wrong! Korea has successfully reversed theirs starting this year due to some extreme policies benefiting families with children

[1] https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-05-27/nationa... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/25/south-korea-bi...

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Re:What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants? by Tor3 on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:55AM (#48408145)
The worldometer statistics site doesn't fully agree with that, the Guardian reports that the rate went from 0.75 to 0.80, while worldometer states that the 2026 rate will probably end up at 0.76. At best this has kind of stopped dropping, but it is any case catastrophically low (and way worse than Japan)
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Re:What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants? by Schiendelman on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:58PM (#48431013)
"Successfully reversed" would require a number over 2.0. This is just bad reporting.
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