No. of Japan households with kids falls below 10 mil. for 1st time

The number of households in Japan with children fell below 10 million in 2022 for the first time since comparable data became available in 1986, government data showed Tuesday, providing a fresh reminder of the country's rapidly declining birthrate.Households with children under 18 stood at 9.917 million, down 3.4 percentage points from 2019 data to a record low of 18.3 percent of the total, according to the triennial data released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.Child care policy has been a priority for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government, which unveiled in June measures…READ FULL ARTICLE