Extrapolating a trend that has hardly been going on for half a century 1000 years into the future is a bit of a stretch.
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"If the rate of decline continues, we will be able to celebrate the Children's Day public holiday on May 5, 3011 as there will be one child," said Hiroshi Yoshida, an economics professor at Tohoku University.
"But 100 seconds later there will be no children left," he said. "The overall trend is towards extinction, which started in 1975 when Japan's fertility rate fell below two."
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Oh come on... someone just learned how to plot a graph and needs to tell the world of his findings?
With economy professors like this, I fear more for Japan's economic future than their population size.