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Number of Births in Japan To Hit Record Low in 2017 (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the next-up dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The number of births in Japan this year has fallen to is lowest since records began more than a century ago with about 941,000 new babies, the health ministry said on Friday, proof if any were needed that it faces an ageing and shrinking population. The number of births will be about 4 percent lower than last year and the lowest since the government started compiling data in 1899, the ministry said.

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  1. Bring on the Bbirths by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Proof that slashdot editors are not robots, otherwise they wouldn't make such silly mistakes.

  2. Bukkake! by HornWumpus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop it, your kids are confused. Never going to knock up their GFs/wives that way.

    --
    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'