Japan's population dropped by a million people from 2010 to 2015
 

Japan's population dropped by a million people from 2010 to 2015
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Japan's latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking.

Japan's population stood at 127.1 million last fall, down 0.7 percent from 128.1 million in 2010, according to results of the 2015 census, released Friday. The 947,000 decline in the population in the last five years was the first since the once-every-five-years count started in 1920.

Unable to count on a growing market and labor force to power eco**mic expansion, the government has drawn up urgent measures to counter the falling birth rate. Read more...


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