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Originally Posted by Sinestra

Here are two articles that should help with your questions one is a few years old but the information in the article addresses a lot regarding why Japan's birth rate is so low and still falling.

Italy is also facing the same problem. Birthrates in multiple western countries have actually started to decline there are many reasons behind this. But we will stick to Japan for now.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Gender issues key to low birth rate

A special report on Japan: The dearth of births | The Economist

Wow those are two very good article, especially the last one.

Just as I suspected, it seems the problem in Japan has almost nothing to do with women. It seems like it's too much of an economic disadvantage to have kids and that the Japanese ultra-urban ultra-expensive lifestyle is a major deterrent to kids.

Also, the article touched on the social stigma to out of wedlock births which because of the feminist movement is no longer present in the US. In fact single mothers are celebrated here and rewarded with welfare checks

Very very interesting how different Japan's problem are than the US.