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What Does Demographic Change Look Like in Japan?

Noa snider travelled to acita prefecture in the north of japan. Half of its residents now are over 65 years old, and its overall population has shrunk by about half since since 19 90. She visited a morning market which has been held regularly in the town since 14 95. So this kind of as microcosm of the shifts that have happened across Japan in recent decades.

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