The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------FOCUS: Calls grow for drastic steps to address Japan's sliding birthrateTOKYO - As the Japanese government launched a new agency Saturday to address the declining birthrate, experts are calling for more drastic steps than the measures recently announced by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.The Children and Families Agency was created to oversee child policies, including tackling child abuse and poverty, and comes after the number of babies born in the country in 2022 slid below 800,000, a level reached more than …READ FULL ARTICLE