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Nury Vittachi
May 21, 2012
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Falling birthrate will leave just one child left

JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE set to go extinct. If you extrapolate current birth rate figures, the country’s last child will be born before the end of this millennium, researcher Hiroshi Yoshida of Tohoku University revealed last week.

Whoa! Imagine being that last kid, with 100 million adults lined up to spoil you.…

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