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‘I want three children’: How two Japanese municipalities are bucking the trend of depopulation
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Children at a childcare pickup station in Nagareyama, a city where children below 10 years old now outnumber the elderly aged 65 to 74.
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NAGI (Okayama) / NAGAREYAMA (Chiba) – Mrs Ayano Hata is pregnant with her second child but is already thinking about having a third.
“We look at the large families around us and, somehow, ours still feels incomplete,” the 25-year-old tells The Straits Times as she watches her firstborn, 21-month-old Koharu, toddle across the lawn of a daycare centre.
