{"id":10481,"date":"2011-01-06T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10481"},"modified":"2011-01-06T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T15:02:15","slug":"japan-population-decline-06012011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/japan-population-decline-06012011\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan population decline more than 100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10482\" title=\"japan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/japan-280x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/japan-280x124.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/japan.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Japan&#8217;s population has declined by more than 100,000 for the first time since the end of the World War Two, according to new government figures.<br \/>\nFamously home to one of the world&#8217;s fastest ageing societies, Japan experienced a record population drop of 123,000 during 2010.<br \/>\nThe decline is the fourth consecutive annual decline and brings the current population to 125.77 million, according to statistics released by the health ministry.<br \/>\nThe nation&#8217;s already ageing population combined with an extreme summer heatwave were believed to have caused deaths to hit a record 1.19 million, an increase of 52,000 compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in deaths overshadowed a slight increase in birth rates, with 1.071 million babies born in Japan last year, marking an increase of 1,000 from 2009.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, marriage and divorce rates both decreased by around 2,000, with 706,000 couples tying the knot and a further 251,000 formally separating.<br \/>\nThe figures confirm Japan&#8217;s status as a rapidly ageing nation, with a growing number of Japanese enjoying increased life expectancy while younger generations delay having a family due to financial burdens and lifestyle choices.<br \/>\nAs Japan adapts to its increasingly elderly demographic, a growing number of companies are tapping into a so-called &#8220;silver market&#8221; with investment in services relating to the elderly.<br \/>\nOn a production level, as the nation faces a shrinking workforce, there has also long been a focus on investment in robotics technology to balance a forecast decline in human workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s population has declined by more than 100,000 for the first time since the end of the World War Two, according to new government figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":10482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80],"tags":[14085,14084,2069,14083],"class_list":["post-10481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","tag-decrease","tag-increase","tag-japan","tag-world-war-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}