The Daily Yomiuri (I can’t find a link for the news there online, hence this entry) reported the birth and death numbers in Japan for the year 2007. It seems that the birthrate here has returned to a decline after increasing in the year 2006:
| Births | Birth Change | Deaths | Death Change |
| 1,120,937 | -1,341 | 1,119,492 | +24,099 |