Summary: Japan's child population remains on a decline and the number has been dropping for 33 years straight. Japan's lost 160,000 children under the age of fifteen in the last year. Many are worried because predictions are that the child population will continue to decline as well as the number of births. Many factors are being blamed for this constant decline: strict immigration policy, gender inequality, and even a lack of interest in not only having children.
Analysis: In Japan, this could be a major conflict because who is going to be the future of Japan? The fact that Japan has more adults than children could mean that when these adults pass on, about half of the population will be gone because more than half of the population is adults.
Sources: http://rt.com/news/156872-japan-children-population-decline/
Kim Kyung-Hoon
Published on: May 5th, 2014
