Article: Towards the lowest-ever population.(Japan's falling birthrate)(Brief Article)

Article: POPULATION: JAPAN TRIES TO MAKE MOTHERHOOD MORE ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... been a distant dream in Japan, but a drastic national population decline is forcing the ... across the country. But Japan's current population of 128 million is expected ... says is at the core of Japan's population decrease. "Younger ...

Article: POPULATION-JAPAN: MORE MOTHERS-TO-BE HOPING FOR A ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Ryuichi Kaneko of the population institute. Experts on ... trend will continue as Japan's birth rates continue ... gender balance in Japanese population, says Kaneko. At present, Japan's 127 million population is divided almost equally ...

Article: POPULATION-JAPAN: ELDERLY GENERATION THE HEALTHIEST ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Iwatsuki will be joining Japan's largest growing ... country's 127 million population, up 0.6 percent ... rise dramatically in Japan, accounting for 26 percent of the population by 2015 and 30 percent ... also reveals that Japan's aged are in good ...

Article: POPULATION-JAPAN: INTERMARRIAGES STRAIN AN INSULAR ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  May 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... women" because they work in bars in Japan's deeply-entrenched entertainment ... for speaking or laughing loudly. As Japan's foreign population develops deeper roots, organizations like the Japan-Philippine Children's Support Group ...

Article: ASIA-POPULATION: JAPAN DESPERATE FOR A BABY BOOM
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... burden on the working population in the form of less ... social security costs. Japan also runs the risk of ... community life, say population experts, and may well ... have big families means Japan is well on its way of ... about 15 percent of the population is 65 years old and ...

Article: POPULATION-JAPAN: FEWER WOMEN CHOOSE TO BECOME ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... births has made Japan the country with the largest aging population relative to total ... percent of total population or 18.2 million ... have predicted that Japan will start aging ... from 2010 when the population -- currently 127 ...

Article: POPULATION-JAPAN: BIRTH CONTROL PILL COMING SOON, ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  December 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo ... is freely available in Japan," Suwa says. "Both ... women's health." In Japan, which has one of the ... 5 percent of the male population. Abortions, meanwhile ... women's groups say Japan's high abortion rate ...