Japan's national birthrate in 2008 was 1.37 children per woman, (sorry, no figures available for men). If this is true, then our island's birthrate must be minus 1.37 per woman. At most.
That's a lot of negative children.
For the first time ever, the kindergarten on our island has no incoming students this year.
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