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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-29T14:32:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Japan's latest headcount brings more bad news for a country already bracing for a demographic crunch. A new census shows the population, including foreign residents, shrank by 3.1 million between 2020 and 2025, landing at about 123 million—a 2.5% drop and the steepest fall among the world's...",
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