Before this time, large families paved the way to a prosperous life, and the government no longer encouraged previously encouraged behaviors, such as infant genocide, delayed marriages, and abortions, in order to keep the population at a necessary minimum. The government instituted plans for both social and economical improvements. With the discouragement of births outside of marriage, women were encouraged to achieve higher degrees of education, which directly caused its purpose; later and fewer marriages. With aided increases in income, improved social security and pensions, and decreasing rates of infant mortality, the need for large families decreased and brought the birth rate to an average of 1.38 for each woman in 1998, and 1.32 in 2002.(Asiasource.org-Special Report: Japan’s Aging Population

This particular strategy, inflicted by the government, has impacted the demographics of Japan, considerably, and has increased their life expectancy to 76.4 for men and 82.8 for women, the highest in the world. This article also mentions an alarming statistic that the number of children, aged 14 and under, has decreased by about 20% since 1949, and makes up only 15% of today’s population. In a related article, (www.kkc/usa/org) Japan’s Aging Society Overview, it was found that senior citizens, in 1950, made up 4.16% of the total population. With a steady increase, almost 22% of the population, in 2000, were senior citizens.

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I selected this article for my paper because this issue is a major concern for the future generations of Japans youth. I also thought that it would be interesting to find out more on why the Japanese live for so long and how this is affecting Japans negative growth rate.

Other factors which have also influenced this increase in life expectancy were high-quality health care and technology. Advances in medicine and science have reduced such things as infant mortality and other, now avoidable, deaths. The article also mentions improvements in other areas of technology, concerning sanitation and nutrition, which has a

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