Childbirths in Japan are on course in 2022 to fall below 800,000 babies for the first time in recorded history since 1899. - AFP
TOKYO, Dec 11 (The Straits Times/ANN): Planet Earth hit a milestone of eight billion people in November, but the prognosis for Japan, the world’s oldest society, is bleak.
Entrepreneur Elon Musk warned in a tweet in May that the country could “eventually cease to exist”.
