Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledges to take urgent steps to tackle the country's declining birth rate
Japan saw a record low number of births in 2021, the latest data available, prompting the biggest-ever natural decline in the population.
Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida has pledged to take urgent steps to tackle the country's declining birth rate, saying it was "now or never" for the world's oldest society. "Our nation is on the cusp of whether it can maintain its societal functions," Kishida said in a policy speech on Monday at the opening of this year's parliamentary session.
"It is now or never when it comes to policies regarding births and child-rearing - it is an issue that simply cannot wait any longer," he added. Japan saw a record low number of births in 2021, the latest data available, prompting the biggest-ever natural decline in the population.
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