New low figure of Japan births

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TOKYO: The number of child births in Japan last year plunged to yet another new low, recently released figures have shown, signalling the grave social obstacles that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will need to surmount to reverse the demographic trend.

Just 918,397 babies were born last year, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry announced, in what was the third straight year the number of newborns fell below the one million psychological barrier.

Last month, a 45-year-old father in Fukuoka was arrested for using a shock collar to discipline his three children, while last week, a 21-year-old mother and her 24-year-old boyfriend in Sapporo were arrested after her two-year-old daughter was found dead. She had suffered bruising and appeared to have been malnourished.

“The financial burden of education and child-rearing weighs heavily on young people, becoming a bottleneck for them to give birth and raise children.But the impact of the policies has not been felt by the society at large, which lambasted the wanton remarks made by at least two senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party politicians behoving them to uphold their societal responsibility and “give birth to at least three children”.

 

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