{"id":78386,"date":"2025-08-08T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78386"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:51:45","slug":"japan-sees-nearly-a-million-more-deaths-than-births-as-demographic-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/japan-sees-nearly-a-million-more-deaths-than-births-as-demographic-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan sees nearly a million more deaths than births as demographic crisis 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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1K9dDz.img?w=534&amp;h=400&amp;m=6&amp;x=428&amp;y=191&amp;s=66&amp;d=66\" alt=\"Children play in a nursery room run by Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido in Tokyo on 2 April 2008 (AFP via Getty)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><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>\u00a0saw nearly one million more deaths than births in 2024 in the\u00a0<a title=\"Japan's annual births fall to record low as country's 'silent emergency' deepens\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/japan-tokyo-experts-b2763786.html\" 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}\">largest annual population decline\u00a0<\/a>since records began six decades ago.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/japan-sees-nearly-a-million-more-deaths-than-births-as-demographic-crisis-deepens\/ar-AA1K9bzN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68961ac96bb14b0c8ece6f1ba1a48e2e&amp;ei=46\"> 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>Japan\u00a0saw nearly one million more deaths than births in 2024 in the\u00a0largest annual population decline\u00a0since records began six decades ago.\u00a0 Read More<\/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-78386","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\/78386","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=78386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78387,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78386\/revisions\/78387"}],"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=78386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}