Japan's child population has shrunk to an estimated 13.29 million as of April 1, down 350,000 from a year earlier and marking a new record low, the government said Monday.

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Places with fastest population declines are places where men don’t contribute much to upbringing of children while also expecting women to work full time. This is being sold as emancipation of women somehow, in reality it’s just capitalism running out of workforce, which is why media are so alarmist about this whole thing.

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