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World Service,2 mins

Why Japan needs more children

The World This Week

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Japan's importing workers because not enough children are being born. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo tells Shaun Ley why young Japanese women don't want to get married. (Picture: Japanese children using wooden hammers to pound rice at a festival in Tokyo. Credit: AFP/Getty)

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