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    A Japanese Ski Resort Town Is Roiled by a Debate Over Immigration

    Residents are protesting a planned housing facility for foreign workers, exposing the conflict between Japan’s need for labor and anxieties over immigration.
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    U.N. Report Says We’re Missing the Real Fertility Crisis

    Policymakers in many countries assume that birthrates have fallen because people want fewer children, but a global study says financial insecurity is driving those decisions.
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    Vietnam Abolishes Two-Child Policy

    Even though the regulation was loosely enforced, the nation’s birthrate fell to a record low last year.