Editorial

17:05 JST, February 28, 2025

How should a society be created in which many young people want to have children? Measures to maintain national strength and sustain the social security system should be devised.

The government has released the preliminary figures of Japan’s vital statistics for 2024. The number of births last year decreased by 5% from the previous year to 720,988, a record low for the ninth consecutive year.

The rate of decline in births has been particularly serious in recent years. Since 2022, the number of births has declined by 5% or more for three consecutive years.

Since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, opportunities for people to meet in person have been restricted, and encounters between men and women have also decreased. Not a few have also postponed their........

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