Japan's trick to reverse population collapse
A nation desperate to increase its number of people
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Every year in Japan, news reports flood in during the springtime and bring the same grim news of the country’s ever-shrinking population. As the nation’s growth rate plummets into the negatives, experts are continuously trying to find new ways to help Japan’s population from collapsing entirely in the coming decades. Whether it’s incentives, reforms, or technology, there are a number of ways that the country has tried to take on the issue.
But what has the Japanese government actually done to combat the country’s rapid decline in population? Click through this gallery to find out what is causing this problem and how Japan is confronting it.
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