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Article: Japan: Population declining.(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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Tokyo--A new government report says that the decline in Japan's population poses a problem which is "worrisome for the medium term, and alarming over the long range."
Today 56 per cent of the population is employed, while 20 per cent are retired. Within 40 years those figures will be reversed: 20 per cent employed and ...