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SamoyedFurFluff on May 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day ...

Japans xenophobia is a problem in that they can’t bandaid their birth rate issues with immigration the way other countries have been able to, but that doesn’t make it not a problem. Immigrants arrive and then have similar birth rates within a generation or so.

femiagbabiaka on May 20, 2022 [–]

Wow! I did not realize this was the case. So this must be a result of domestic policy even beyond the job culture.

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