India, Jan. 28 -- Down To Earth speaks to JNU Japan expert about the 'now or never' statement by Japanese premier Fumio Kishida on his country's shrinking population
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East Asia is in a state of demographic decline. On January 17, figures released by China's National Bureau of Statistics showed a historic drop in the number of people in the country since 1961.
Then, on January 23, Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged to take urgent steps to tackle his country's declining birth rate, saying it was "now or never".
Down To Earth spoke to Srabani Roy Choudhury, Professor in Japanese Studies at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New De...