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Japan needs more than childcare subsidies to defuse its demographic time bomb: Experts
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Surveys in Japan have cited financial pressures, bleak job prospects, and a general lack of hope for the future as reasons for why youth are not contemplating marriage or children.
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TOKYO - Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani, the 29-year-old Japanese heart-throb who regularly tops most eligible bachelor lists in the country, said on Feb 29 that he was no longer on the market
Yet wedding bells like his – let alone a stork bearing a new baby – are becoming rarer in Japan, where a string of unenviable records are being broken.
