Working up to 77.25 eh?
Here is the rest of the FT article, too pessimistic in my view but by no means is it entirely fabricated. Here is one quotation:In 2019 Japan’s population shrank at the rate of roughly one person per minute…
I am curious to see what will be the next “big turn” in Japan’s history…the country has had a few, and they were not well predicted in advance.“The economic and demographic numbers make the future look so grim. They believe the pie is shrinking, so if they do get a piece, they have to stick to it. The priority is stability. Nobody has big dreams any more,” said Prof Miura. A study published earlier this year by Hiroshi Ishida, a professor at Tokyo University’s Institute of Social Science, found a record 49 per cent of respondents aged 20 to 31 thought life for their children would be worse than for them.