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Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

‘If we go on this way, the Japanese race will become extinct,’ Chikara Sakaguchi said melodramatically in 2002.1 Sakaguchi was basing his alarmist prediction on extrapolation. If you continue any downward-moving graph far enough into the future it will eventually reach zero. Japan’s fertility rat...