{"id":50360,"date":"2022-11-19T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/19\/fear-older-future-japan-south-korea-birth-fertility-rates-population"},"modified":"2022-11-19T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:00:44","slug":"im-afraid-to-have-children-fear-of-an-older-future-in-japan-and-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50360","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m afraid to have children\u2019: fear of an older future in Japan and South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As birth and fertility rates fall, there is official concern about the economic impact of a declining and ageing population<\/p>\n<p>It is not hard to spot the grey hairs among the late-morning shoppers on Jizo-dori. Their owners have come to buy discount underwear and colourful blouses, have lunch with friends in retro cafes and, if they are over 60, have their nails done at huge discounts.<\/p>\n<p>At regular intervals along the street, signs indicate the presence of defibrillators; and at Koganji temple, people pause to waft \u201ccure-all\u201d smoke from smouldering incense sticks over their aches and pains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/19\/fear-older-future-japan-south-korea-birth-fertility-rates-population\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As birth and fertility rates fall, there is official concern about the economic impact of a declining and ageing populationIt is not hard to spot the grey hairs among the late-morning shoppers on Jizo-dori. Their owners have come to buy discount underw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3060,"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":[41,217,88,1222,706,79,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cities","category-japan","category-older-people","category-population","category-society","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50360","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\/3060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50361,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50360\/revisions\/50361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}