Baby blues

Article Abstract:

Japanese economists are concerned about the falling birth rate, which is one of the lowest in the world. The average Japanese women is expected to have 1.39 children, which could lead to a dramatic population fall from a predicted 126 million by 2007 to just over 60 million by the year 3000. Declining birth rates are attributed to people getting married older and the pressure of working women, who tend to marry around 26 years of age in 1998, compared with 24 years of age during the 1970s. The government sees the provision of better child care as a solution to improving birth rates.

Population, Births, Japan, Population forecasting

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On fertile ground

Article Abstract:

India's scientists are hard at work in developing new contraceptive devices for both men and women. A contraceptive vaccine for women being developed at the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi, India, is currently being administered to a test group of 180 women who have normal sex lives. At the same time, another team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India are working on a contraceptive device for men. Another contraceptive pill that alters the female's reproductive cycle is already available in the market.

Research, India, Contraceptives

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Bankers' blues

Article Abstract:

Japanese banks are nervous about the approaching end of March because the markets are troubled and most major companies are about to close their books on the fiscal year. Share prices have tumbled recently and the rising yen promises to hammer many exporters. Many observers are also still worried about repercussions from the fall of two credit unions that backed Harunori Takahashi and his EIE International. Takahashi has been called before the Diet, where he blamed his woes on another lender, Long Term Credit Bank.

Banking industry, Finance

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