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Japan’s Time Bomb~II

An average tourist to Tokyo would find it difficult to believe the country’s population is shrinking after seeing the bustling crowds on the roads of Japan’s capital city.

Japan’s Time Bomb~I

In a bizarre move to address the country’s declining population, the Japanese government launched a new initiative to support single women moving out of Tokyo to rural areas to get married and thus fill the gap of a shrinking female population in the countryside.

Japan: Explosion in Tokyo’s Shimbashi, 4 injured

An explosion was reported from in a building in the bustling Shimbashi district of Tokyo and according to footage from the site smoke was seen billowing out from the site, Japan-based Kyodo News reported on Monday.