Editing Human population planning (section)

===Japan===
[[Japan]] has experienced [[Aging of Japan|a shrinking population]] for many years.<ref name='economist-japan'>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demography|title=Japan's demography: the incredible shrinking country|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=25 March 2014|access-date=25 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324183812/http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demography|archive-date=24 March 2017}}</ref> The government is trying to encourage women to have children or to have more children – many Japanese women do not have children, or even remain single. The population is culturally opposed to [[immigration]]. <ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1862645|title=Views on immigration in Japan: identities, interests, and pragmatic divergence|first1=Jeremy|last1=Davison|first2=Ito|last2=and Peng|date=August 18, 2021|journal=Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies|volume=47|issue=11|pages=2578–2595|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/1369183X.2020.1862645}}</ref>  

Some Japanese localities, facing significant population loss, are offering economic incentives. [[Yamatsuri]], a town of 7,000 just north of [[Tokyo]], offers parents $4,600 for the birth of a child and $460 a year for 10 years.