World ‘No babies, no Japan’: PM Kishida's aide says country ‘will disappear’ if people don’t have more children

[tom_mai78101]

Japan PM Fumio Kishida’s advisor recently said in a statement that the country will cease to exist if it can’t slow a fall in its birth rate that threatens to wreck the social safety net and economy.

Masako Mori, an upper house lawmaker and former minister who advises Kishida on the birth rate problem and LGBTQ issues, said in an interview in Tokyo that, “If we go on like this, the country will disappear.”

She added, “It’s the people who have to live through the process of disappearance who will face enormous harm. It’s a terrible disease that will afflict those children,” reported Bloomberg.

Japan had earlier announced on 28 February that the number of babies born in the country last year slumped to a record low.

Last year, roughly twice as many people died as were born, with fewer than 800,000 births and nearly 1.58 million deaths.

PM Kishida later vowed to double the spending on children and families in an effort to control the declining birth rate in the country.

‘No babies, no Japan’: PM Kishida's aide says country ‘will disappear’ if people don’t have more children

Masako Mori, an upper house lawmaker and former minister who advises Kishida on the birth rate problem, said, 'if we go on like this, the country will disappear'

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[The Helper]

He is right too. The country will never disappear but it will be some kind of weird different place even more than it is already in a couple of decades.

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