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Areas outside big cities to face drops in young women: study
A decline in young women in provincial areas over the next 30 years may trigger major population shrinkage in towns and cities across Japan, a study warns.
Towns, small cities likely to lose half their women by 2040: think tank
Nearly half of Japan's municipalities are likely to see their populations young women shrink by more than half by 2040 compared with 2010 if the flight to major cities continues apace, a study by the Japan Policy Council said Thursday. The demographic prediction was made ...
The knife attack last week by a man on three first-grade boys near an elementary school in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, has once again raised the question of how to keep children safe. In many communities in recent years, residents and convenience store employees have taken ...
