[4] since 2010, japan has experienced net population loss due to falling birth rates and minimal immigration, despite having one of the highest life expectancies in the world, at 85.00 years in. The demographic crisis has become one of japan’s most pressing issues, with multiple governments failing to reverse the double blow of a falling fertility rate and swelling elderly population. A conceptual clock developed by an expert on demographic trends and ageing society in tohoku university in japan predicts that in 695 years, there will only be one child below the age of 14 left. As of the 2000 census, over half of the 37,279 people of japanese ancestry in the u.s State of new york lived in new york city [2] as of 2012, the new york city metropolitan area was home to the largest japanese community on the east coast of the united states
[3] the community has grown to the point that the first annual japan day parade, the largest outside japan, took place in manhattan. The new york region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the united states [2][3][4][5] the city is the geographical and demographic center of both the northeast megalopolis and the new york metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the u.s By both population and urban area. Women in japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after world war ii Japanese women first gained the right to vote in 1880, but this was a temporary event limited to certain municipalities, [6][7] and it was not until 1945 that women gained the right to vote on a permanent, nationwide basis
