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Modern Japan contrasts this image with its bustling metropolis, Tokyo, still revered as one of the world’s largest cities, juxtaposed against a backdrop of staggering population loss. With statistics revealing more than two deaths occurring for each birth—resulting in a net loss of almost one million people last year—Japan is now experiencing a demographic imbalance unlike any other. As the nation transitions from young families to an aging population, an alarming societal shift is underway where adult diapers outsell baby diapers.