{"id":52125,"date":"2023-01-24T15:34:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/24\/japan-birthrate-population-pm-solution-already-rejected-by-young"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:34:21","slug":"japan-pms-solution-to-dire-birthrate-has-already-been-rejected-by-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52125","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM\u2019s solution to dire birthrate has already been rejected by young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida says lifting the birthrate \u2018cannot wait\u2019 yet policies stick to scripts that have so far failed to address the country\u2019s population crisis<\/p>\n<p>Fumio Kishida is not a politician given to dramatic pronouncements. But this week he issued a stark warning to the Japanese people: have more children, or risk dragging their country into the depths of dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p>His shift in persona from bland career politician to doomsayer in chief is a reflection of the demographic crisis facing Japan, one of the fastest-ageing countries on earth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/24\/japan-birthrate-population-pm-solution-already-rejected-by-young\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida says lifting the birthrate \u2018cannot wait\u2019 yet policies stick to scripts that have so far failed to address the country\u2019s population crisisFumio Kishida is not a politician given to dramatic pronouncements. But this week he issued a stark w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[88,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-population"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52125","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52125\/revisions\/52126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}