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Japan’s population is shrinking at an accelerating rate, but the nationalist prime minister is making it harder for foreigners to live there
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The latest five-year census showed the number of Japanese nationals declined by 3.5% to 119.1 million in 2025, following a 1.4% drop in the 2020 count.
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- Low · 23/100
- Impact direction
- Negative