Japanese population to start shrinking!
Japanese population to start shrinking in new year - Yahoo! NewsTOKYO (AFP) - Japan said it expects its population to start shrinking in 2006, a year earlier than previously thought, and called for urgent measures to persuade young people to start families.
「日本政府は、従来の予想より1年早い2006年から人口減少が始まると発表した。同時に、若い世代の家族形成を促す政策を訴えた」
だそうです。「あぁ、そうかぁ」と人事に思ったりしていますが。
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It also proposed that Japan accept more foreigners and bring more foreign exchange students into the workforce, besides promoting immigration by workers of Japanese ancestry.But this month, the government changed course and announced tighter screening of potential immigrants of Japanese origin after a Peruvian claiming Japanese ancestry allegedly murdered a seven-year-old girl.
と、移民の話に触れているのも面白い。