{"id":56975,"date":"2023-07-26T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/japan-population-how-many-people-drops-first-time-births-deaths"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:10:41","slug":"japans-population-drops-by-nearly-800000-with-falls-in-every-prefecture-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56975","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing demographics are affecting nearly every part of society, while efforts to turn around the decline have so far had little impact<\/p>\n<p>Every one of Japan\u2019s 47 prefectures posted a population drop in 2022, while the total number of Japanese people fell by more than 800,000. The figures released by the Japan\u2019s internal affairs ministry mark two new unwelcome records for a nation sailing into uncharted demographic territory, but on a course many other countries are set to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister has called the trend a crisis and vowed to tackle the situation. But national policies have so far failed to dent population decline, though concerted efforts by a sprinkling of small towns have had some effect.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/japan-population-how-many-people-drops-first-time-births-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing demographics are affecting nearly every part of society, while efforts to turn around the decline have so far had little impactEvery one of Japan\u2019s 47 prefectures posted a population drop in 2022, while the total number of Japanese people fell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[41,88,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/56975","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56975\/revisions\/56989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}