Japan's Birth Rate Crisis: Policies and Paradoxes

This chapter examines Japan's attempts to tackle its declining birth rates through pro-natalist policies, revealing the contradictions within these initiatives. It critiques the historical and political context behind these efforts, emphasizing the failures of proposed solutions and the ongoing struggle between social values and economic demands.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19

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Sources/Links:

The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-covid-vaccines-can-stay-fall-access-concerns-rcna208492

Tiananmen Remastered

https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/

https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/

http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html

https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/

https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4