{"id":44313,"date":"2022-05-09T19:47:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/elon-musk-tweet-sparks-debate-in-japan-on-falling-birthrate"},"modified":"2022-05-09T19:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T10:47:04","slug":"elon-musk-tweet-sparks-debate-in-japan-on-falling-birthrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44313","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tweet sparks debate in Japan on falling birthrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla boss responds to data showing population fell by record 644,000 last year \u2013 the 11th straight year of decline<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> has warned that Japan will \u201ccease to exist\u201d unless it addresses its falling birthrate, sparking calls for the country to allow more immigration and improve its work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birthrate to exceed the death rate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> will eventually cease to exist. This would be a great loss for the world,\u201d the Tesla chief executive, who recently agreed a deal to buy Twitter for $44bn (\u00a336bn), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1523045544536723456\">said in a post<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/elon-musk-tweet-sparks-debate-in-japan-on-falling-birthrate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla boss responds to data showing population fell by record 644,000 last year \u2013 the 11th straight year of declineElon Musk has warned that Japan will \u201ccease to exist\u201d unless it addresses its falling birthrate, sparking calls for the country to allow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1978,88,706,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-elon-musk","category-japan","category-population","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44328,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44313\/revisions\/44328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}