{"id":76069,"date":"2025-06-04T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76069"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:29:24","slug":"japans-annual-births-fall-to-record-low-as-countrys-silent-emergency-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/japans-annual-births-fall-to-record-low-as-countrys-silent-emergency-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s annual births fall to record low as country&#8217;s &#8216;silent emergency&#8217; deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1G5MS8.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Japan Daily Life\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of newborns in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Japan<\/a> is decreasing faster than projected, with the number of annual births falling to a record low last year, according to government data released Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/japan-s-annual-births-fall-to-record-low-as-country-s-silent-emergency-deepens\/ar-AA1G5OTZ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&amp;cvid=4f985ae474294b9382ec95ab18b0016c&amp;ei=60\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The number of newborns in\u00a0Japan is decreasing faster than projected, with the number of annual births falling to a record low last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Japan-child.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76070,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069\/revisions\/76070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}