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Japan's population is declining at record speed while the number of foreign nationals residing in the country has risen to a record high, according to government data released Wednesday. The data show the total number of Japanese nationals in the country fell by about 800,000 people in 2022, the 14th consecutive year of population decline, according to the Reuters news agency.

The data released by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications highlighted the extent to which the country's population is aging and the increasingly significant role that foreign-born immigrants are now playing in Japanese society. A record 3 million foreign nationals were living in the country as of January 2023, when the data was tabulated.

Japan's overall population fell to 125.42 million, a decrease of about 511,000 on the previous year, the study shows.

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[-] giantofthenorth@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Damn if only there was an easy solution, like making people not work themselves to death and actually have time for families

[-] Djeikup@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

We thought about it, but saving the future would cost us about 2% profit in the next quarter so corporate said no.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It kills me every time the Japanese government comes up with a new incentive to have kids that has nothing to do with giving citizens more time off.

Even just banning the culture of not leaving till your boss has left (the details don’t matter, the point is that’s a huge issue) would go a long way to giving them more time for mate finding/mating.

[-] giantofthenorth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I want to guillotine every politican that chooses corpo profits over the health of their nation

[-] youhavemykeys@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

so much of their problems come from the fact that their biggest generation is old and conservative, it makes social change so much more difficult.

[-] Spacebar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

'We've identified the root cause of the problem and will be trying everything else."

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