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Nikkei editor's need to learn abc of demography & looking at data before giving hot takes
Conservative prefectures in Japan have higher TFR
Japanese who r most proud abt being Japanese have a substantially higher TFR
These r precisely the ppl who r least
likely to believe in gender equality shibboleths & thus should have a lower TFR than libs according to ur liberal religion but reality is the opposite
Also recent cohort of SK women that finished childbearing have childlessness more like Britain than Japan
Here r the childless stats
Yet Japanese TFR is well above SK, Taiwan, PRC, Italy, Spain because way more Japanese women have 3 or more kids & report a higher desired fertility in surveys than Chinese & SK women
Sample of Kotoe's views on LGBT & the law about having a common surname for married couples
Google Translate is bad for Japanese but u get the gist, use DeepL for better translation of her tweets
She also thinks Japan should have nukes (I concur)

Views of former actress Horikita Maki who announced her retirement from acting on her marriage in 2015 & said she wanted at least 4 kids (has 2 now)
This was her response to western interviewer trying to bait her into Western talking pts on gender equality

Stats on late 70's born women who ended up having 3 or more kids in different countries

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