{"id":74708,"date":"2025-10-13T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/13\/record-number-babies-born-foreign-parents-japan-political-row-migration"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:46:40","slug":"record-number-of-babies-born-to-foreign-parents-in-japan-amid-political-row-over-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74708","title":{"rendered":"Record number of babies born to foreign parents in Japan amid political row over migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20,000 children were born to non-Japanese couples, accounting for more than 3% of all newborns<\/p>\n<p>The number of babies born to foreign parents reached a record high in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> in 2024, underlining rapid demographic changes that have propelled migration to the heart of the country\u2019s political debate.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 children were born to non-Japanese couples, accounting for more than 3% of all newborns, according to the health ministry \u2013 in stark contrast to another sharp fall in the number born to Japanese parents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/13\/record-number-babies-born-foreign-parents-japan-political-row-migration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20,000 children were born to non-Japanese couples, accounting for more than 3% of all newbornsThe number of babies born to foreign parents reached a record high in Japan in 2024, underlining rapid demographic changes that have propelled migra&#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":[41,88,491,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-migration","category-population"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74708","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=74708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74709,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74708\/revisions\/74709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}