re: Ten companies exist on the planet today that were founded before 1000 AD

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Of the 125 million residents of the islands of Japan, 98% are ethnic Japanese or Yamato

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TIL Japan is the Alabama of Asia.

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Being a nation of islands, I don't really think they care if their population isn't growing.

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You are a moron if you don't think leaders in Japan and China aren't extremely worried about their countries' fertility rates both of which hover between 1.3-1.6. You need the fertility replacement level to be at least 2.1 to maintain your population level.

At the rate China and Japan are going they will lose 40% of their population within a generation. Declining population is one of the biggest challenges facing those countries. America's fertility rate is low too around 1.7, but we manage to cross the 2.1 mark because we let a lot of immigrants into the country.