Fading photos of smiling children still adorn the staircase walls at the Ashigakubo primary school, one of thousands that have shut in ageing Japan over the past 20 years. It has 14.4 million children under the age of 15, barely 11.5 percent of the total population and four million fewer than at the start of the 2000s.
Fading photos of smiling children still adorn the staircase walls at the Ashigakubo primary school, one of thousands that have shut in ageing Japan over the past 20 years.
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