It is still possible for a population in decline, even as severely as Japan’s, to recover, but it requires serious cultural reexamination. 

Japan released a report last month announcing that last year, it yet again achieved record lows demographically. There were 758,631 births, an all-time low. This number is a 5.1% decrease over the previous year, and it is the largest margin of decline ever. The population is projected to fall under 100 million by 2053. There were 489,281 marriages, the lowest number since before the Second World War.