‘No babies, no Japan’: PM Kishida's aide says country ‘will disappear’ if people don’t have more children

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AFP New Delhi: Japan PM Fumio Kishida’s advisor recently said in a statement that the country will cease to exist if it can’t slow a fall in its birth rate that threatens to wreck the social safety net and economy. Masako Mori, an upper house lawmaker and former minister who advises Kishida on the birth rate problem and LGBTQ issues, said in an interview in Tokyo that, “If we go on like this, the country will disappear. Kishida has said that the new package will be ‘on a different dimension’ from previous policies, but he hasn’t yet announced how the package will be spent

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