Addressing Japan’s fertility decline will require measures that improve employment security, make work and family easier to combine and increase incentives for marriage and childrearing. Fertility has fallen across much of the world, with countries in East Asia showing especially steep declines. Japan has long been a prominent example. Its total fertility rate (TFR) — the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime — was a... [4894 chars]
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