{"id":74753,"date":"2025-10-15T08:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/15\/japans-imported-baby-boom-spotlights-a-political-and-demographic-timebomb"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:31:43","slug":"japans-imported-baby-boom-spotlights-a-political-and-demographic-timebomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74753","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s imported baby boom spotlights a political and demographic timebomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in births to non-Japanese comes as politicians keep dodging the choice between economic decline and a more diverse population<\/p>\n<p>This week brought encouraging news for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s long battle to defuse its demographic timebomb: in 2024, the number of babies born to one sector of the population rose to a record of more than 22,000 \u2013 that\u2019s about 3,000 more than the previous year and a 50% increase on a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>But none of the women who answered calls \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/15503088\">invariably issued by conservative male politicians<\/a> \u2013 to have more children were Japanese.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/15\/japans-imported-baby-boom-spotlights-a-political-and-demographic-timebomb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in births to non-Japanese comes as politicians keep dodging the choice between economic decline and a more diverse populationThis week brought encouraging news for Japan\u2019s long battle to defuse its demographic timebomb: in 2024, the number of babi&#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-74753","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\/74753","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=74753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74763,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74753\/revisions\/74763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}