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Population Decline: Japan’s Greatest Challenge
—Building a Population Policy and Forming a National Consensus for Our “Second Constitution.”
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IPSS 2012.
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Economic Planning Agency 1992.
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Cabinet Office 2015.
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Council on Economic Fiscal Policy 2014.
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OECD 2014.
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Cabinet Office 2006.
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According to the Cabinet Office’s survey on Japan’s future vision for population and socio-economy (Cabinet Office 2014a), 92.3% of respondents were in favor or slightly in favor of the idea that “the burden of bearing and raising children should be supported by society as a whole.”
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IPSS 2011.
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Cabinet Office 2014b.
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MHLW n.d.
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The TFR for Okinawa Prefecture is 1.94 and Fukui Prefecture 1.60 (MHLW 2014).
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See Mazower 2014.
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Hidekazu, I. (2018). Introduction. In: Funabashi, Y. (eds) Japan’s Population Implosion. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4983-5_1
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