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An important component of “Abenomics” was trying to increase the fertility rate - Japan has been infamously careening towards demographic collapse (which ya know, might be connected to getting married/having kids torpedoing a career…)

At least Abe was advocating consensual sex, I don’t know if his grandfather was so kind in Manchukuo. Abe certainly didn’t want anyone to know about what was happening in Manchukuo.

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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The Moonies weren’t particularly interested in consent, I wouldn’t assume that he was.

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bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So how effective was that? I think the Japanese population is still declining, isn’t it?

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- andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Japan’s total population declined for the 15th straight year in 2023, dropping by more than a half-million people as the population ages and births remain low.
  
  Japan’s population is projected to fall by about 30%, to 87 million by 2070, when four out of every 10 people will be 65 or older.
  
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