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Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Japan is a super old civilization and they've been through plenty of challenging times. They may stick out the next 40 years and continue to do what they have been for the next thousand years.

You do you Japan!