Quote Originally Posted by Maciamo View Post
The A-bomb in Hiroshima killed about 140,000. We are talking about 8.5x more. If you haven't seen the news yet, hurry up ! It's all here.
Indeed, the death rate in Japan is coming dangerously close to the birth rate, so that 2007 may see the total population of Japan diminish for the first time since population census began.
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"The population started declining in 2005, as the 1.067 million births were exceeded by the 1.077 million deaths."