The North Korean leader will meet with President Vladimir Putin to discuss a number of “sensitive issues,” the Kremlin has said | The armored train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has crossed into Russian territory ahead of the summit with President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed in the early hours of Tuesday. ● Earlier in the day, Kyodo news agency quoted local Russian sources as saying that Kim’s train was heading north along the coast after stopping at the Khasan railway station on the North Korean-Russian border. Later, RIA Novosti reported that he crossed the Razdolnaya River, not far from Vladivostok. ● Vladimir Putin arrived in Vladivostok on Monday on a two-day visit to attend the Eastern Economic Forum.

■ N Korea's Kim in Russia for Putin talks as US warns on arms deal (Hürriyet Daily News)
■ Kim Jong Un leaves Pyongyang on special train for visit to Russia (TASS)
■ LIVE UPDATES: Far East, Russia's New Weapons and Economy of The Future - Putin at EEF 2023 (Sputnik News)

Myanmar uses the yuan to pay for supplies of Russian petroleum products, Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations of Myanmar Kan Zaw told Sputnik, adding that the parties are preparing an agreement on the mutual conversion of national currencies. | 💬 "We are using yuan and not [paying] with rubles at this moment. But we are trying to make the kyat-ruble agreement [on the mutual conversion] … [the agreement] is going [to be signed] very soon," Kan Zaw said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok. In addition, Kan Zaw expressed hope that Myanmar would conclude an agreement with Russia on tourism on the sidelines of the EEF. ● Last September, Prime Minister of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing told Sputnik that the country had begun purchasing Russian petroleum products. Myanmar will begin accepting cards of the Russian Mir payment system in October, Kan Zaw said. The 8th EEF is taking place on the campus of the Far Eastern Federal University in the Russian city of Vladivostok from September 10-13. RIA Novosti is the official media partner of the forum.

■ Yuan Bounces Back From 16-Year Low After People's Bank of China Steps In (Sputnik News)
■ Moscow boosts ruble settlements with NATO country (RT.com)

Leaders and representatives of the world’s 20 largest economies met in New Delhi Saturday, reaching a compromise on a joint declaration on global priorities by leaving out Western-proposed criticism of Russia over its military operation in Ukraine. Sputnik spoke to experts to get a sense of what the declaration's "consensus language" really means. | Day one of the two-day G20 summit in New Delhi, India wrapped up on Saturday, with the intergovernmental forum’s members reaching a consensus on economic development, climate change, and pledging to work together toward peace, security and conflict resolution. ● A Russian official told journalists that “very complex” talks took place on formulating the consensus-based joint statement, with the BRICS bloc and its partners “refusing to accept Western narratives” on the crisis in Ukraine. ● The text of the 83-point statement refrained from condemning Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, instead underscoring the need for “all states” to “act in a manner consistent with” the UN Charter, and highlighting the negative global economic and security impact of the ongoing crisis. The text of the document called for a resumption of the Black Sea Grain Deal, but also measures to ensure the “immediate and unimpeded deliveries of grain, foodstuffs, and fertilizers/inputs from” from both Russia and Ukraine, including “to meet the demand in developing and least developed countries, particularly those in Africa.”

■ What’s in the G20 leaders’ declaration? (RT.com)

Fetal-maternal medicine specialist Dr. James Thorp spoke with Dr. Naomi Wolf recently about what he knows concerning the dangers of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccines." | "Dr. Thorp independently confirms the WarRoom / DailyClout's findings now from three other independent sources: that placentas, fetuses and newborns are being damaged by the mRNA injection." "All four sources confirm the same kinds of damage: fibrins, blood clots, 'small for dates' restricted growth and weight of the placentas, and calcifications. Meaning that babies of vaccinated moms in utero may not be getting enough food, and they may lack the room to grow normally." Based on everything the Thorps uncovered, Dr. Thorp believes that every OB/GYN should have known that COVID jabs were dangerous for women and their unborn babies because they are inflammatory, which is catastrophic for pregnancy. (Check out the full interview at State of the Nation)

■ The Real Purpose of the SV40 Promoter in Covid Injections (Sasha Latypova) | "Besides being extremely problematic due to large quantities of DNA found in the vials, the most alarming finding was the SV40 promoter in the DNA plasmid sequence. This part was not disclosed by Pfizer to the regulators. Therefore, they encoded a “stealth gene” in the sequence! This falls squarely into Air Force’s (JASON group) definition of a biological weapon. [...] To summarize: Pfizer encoded an undisclosed “gene” into the DNA matrix from which mRNA is being made for covid injections. Then they left huge amounts of this raw material in the final product. The purpose of this undisclosed component is to ensure that whatever it is attached to is delivered not just into the cell, but into the cell’s nucleus (where the human DNA resides). [...] [The] SV40 promoter delivers foreign cargo into the nuclei of cells that are not supposed to divide, but may begin this malignant process due to being hacked by the foreign cargo." + VIDEO

Dmitry Medvedev | The leaders of the Banderite "Ukraine" are increasingly talking about the need to "bring all Russians to justice" (it is clear that by "Russians" they mean the entire population of our country, regardless of nationality). This has already happened somewhere, eh? ● Bandero-Ukraine is supported by almost all bosses of Western countries. Therefore Biden, Trudeau, Sunak, Scholz, Macron, Meloni, as well as leaders of the vilest Poland, ossified Scandinavian countries, militaristic Japan, marsupial animals from Australia and New Zealand, and other plague fleas like the Baltic States are direct and obvious accomplices of Nazis. And we should treat them as leaders of the countries of the Nazi coalition. ● And not to indulge in sweet dreams of how we will once reconcile and live as a big polyamorous family with non-binary genders. (Translation: DeepL.com)

Following quickly on the success of India's moon landing, the country's space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first solar mission. | The rocket left a trail of smoke and fire as scientists clapped, a live broadcast on the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) website showed. ● The broadcast was watched by more than 860,000 viewers, while thousands gathered at a viewing gallery near the launch site to see the lift-off of the probe, which will aim to study solar winds, which can cause disturbance on earth commonly seen as auroras. ● Named after the Hindi word for the sun, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft took flight barely a week after India beat Russia to become the first country to land on the south pole of the moon. While Russia had a more powerful rocket, India's Chandrayaan-3 out-endured the Luna-25 to execute a textbook landing. ● Prime Minister Modi is pushing for India's space missions to play a larger role on a world stage dominated by the United States and China. "He wants to recreate India's IT boom with space," said a government official who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak for Modi's office.

■ Dr. Mike Yeadon Part I: “Here Are Three Mechanisms by Which This Gene Therapy Will Kill People”
■ Dr. Mike Yeadon Part 2: Midozolam and Morphine Are Two of the Ingredients Used for the Death Penalty
■ Dr. Mike Yeadon Part 3: When Someone Died They Would Deliver Them in a Coffin With No Autopsy
■ Ex-Pfizer VP: Covid Vaxx Push a ‘Supranational Operation’ Intended to ‘Maim and Kill Deliberately’

Back in 2020, we were one of the few platforms that questioned the mainstream narrative and continued to speak with experts and insiders that had important information we felt the public needed to hear. One of those people was Dr. David E. Martin, the professor, researcher and author who many of you will remember as the star of the groundbreaking documentary Plandemic 2. That film was livestreamed here on our Digital Freedom Platform to over two million viewers, becoming the largest live broadcast of a documentary film in human history.

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More than 750 different tribes live in Papua New Guinea, and conflicts often involve them in feuds. Now a dispute has escalated, also because of modern weapons. President Marape wants to crack down. | Up to 150 people have been killed in clashes between warring tribes in Papua New Guinea in recent weeks. Police describe the violence in the northern province of Enga as a "bush fire that got out of control." According to local media, a special forces unit was sent to the region. It is authorized to use "lethal force". ● Prime Minister James Marape described the riots as domestic terrorism. For the next parliamentary session in October, he announced a law that would provide for life imprisonment for those who instigate tribal violence. Papua New Guinea is one of the countries with the most diverse indigenous tribes. Around 750 different ethnic groups live in the Pacific island state. More than 800 languages are spoken that do not have a common root. ● Conflicts between the indigenous peoples are not uncommon, especially in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Tribes are so often engaged in political disagreements. However, the brutality of the recent clashes is new, according to experts. The Red Cross also blames access to modern firearms for the severity of the attacks. ● The tribal feuds also have an impact on the rest of the country. Many struggles are accompanied by abductions, indigenous people are resettled in slums. Last year, armed groups also interfered in the election campaign. According to the UN, more than 15,000 people were abducted from the provinces of Enga, Hela and the Southern Highlands around and after the election. ● The fact that a special unit with orders to shoot is now to ensure order in Enga is nevertheless worrying human rights groups. They fear that these powers may be too broad and that the security authorities will also attack innocent bystanders.

In July, reports surfaced that India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement that allowed the BRICS member (India) to use rupees instead of the US dollar when trading with the Middle Eastern nation. Last week, the first sale took place. | Energy company Indian Oil made payments in rupees for purchasing one million barrels of oil from the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. ● India is not the only BRICS nation to purchase energy from the UAE without going through the US dollar. In March, the oil and gas company China National Offshore Oil Corporation reportedly paid in yuan to import 65,000 tons of liquified natural gas from the UAE. ● Meanwhile, in May, China revealed that it signed $582.3 billion worth of global currency settlement agreements that will exclusively use the yuan. The UAE is one of the countries that inked the deal with the Asian giant along with Russia, Venezuela, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The recent moves of China and India underscore BRICS’ global effort to abandon the US dollar.

■ The Western propaganda machine claims BRICS is a ‘challenge to NATO’ and a ‘mortal threat’ – is this true?

Bigger BRICS family serves as powerful response to West-led hegemony, advocates for fair, multi-polar world | The BRICS countries welcomed six new members from three different continents on Thursday, marking a historic milestone that underscored the solidarity of BRICS and developing countries and determination to work together for a better future, officials and experts said. The expansion of the BRICS, as a new starting point for multilateral cooperation, will play a positive role for more equitable and just global governance, experts said. ● The BRICS countries have decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the grouping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday. It will be the first expansion since 2010 and the new candidates will be admitted as members on January 1, 2024, according to media reports.

■ Western countries not welcome at BRICS – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Johannesburg BRICS declaration (FULL TEXT) (RT.com)

700% increase since vaccination started, up to 25% are fatal. This is now a recognized reaction to Pfizer & Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines | July 3, 2023 - BRAZIL - 52 year old singer and composer Frank Aguiar is married to 31 year old Caroline Aguiar, who revealed on social media on her birthday that she had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome that “burns the body” and was hospitalized in the ICU for 10 days, almost died. (Photos)

■ We Won't Be Fooled Again (James Howard Kunstler)
■ We Are at War in the US and Globally: A Summary of Everything (Sasha Latypova)
■ Orientation for new readers (Katherine Watt)(Bailiwick News)

We know that COVID numbers are actually on the rise again – in part due to the American government’s absolutely disastrous vaccine policy. | As Dr. Peter McCullough wrote this week, “there is no doubt we are starting another outbreak of COVID-19, this time Omicron variants EG.5 and FL.1.5.1 taking the lead in proportions.” Dr. McCullough warns that this surge could last 3 to 6 months. As we learned time and time again during the pandemic, our government will use any increase in COVID numbers as a justification to force masks, lockdowns and vaccine passports on the American public. Will this new surge lead to another round of masks and lockdowns? Only if we allow it. Conservatives all across social media are urging patriots to “not comply” if restrictions return. These voices are absolutely correct, we need to stand strong and refuse to go along with these violations of our basic freedoms. There is more that we can do however, we can also BE PREPARED.

India becomes the first in the world to successfully land a spacecraft — Chandrayaan-3 module with a lunar rover on board — on the South Pole of the Moon, according to the footage broadcast by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Wednesday. | India's Moon mission was launched on July 14, and it entered the lunar orbit on August 5. The station will conduct several maneuvers to approach the Moon until its orbit decreases to 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Moon. The Chandrayaan-3's landing module Vikram separated from the station on August 17 and previously conducted two operations to lower its orbit. ● The successful touch-down of the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lander on the Moon will help lunar missions of other countries in the future, Indian Prime Minister stated. ● Modi expressed confidence that all countries of the world, including the Global South, are capable of achieving such results.

Vikram Sharma | A new Indian study has uncovered the secret of the Sherpa people’s genes that allows them to survive in the most extreme conditions | As he climbed Mount Everest’s Lhotse ice wall, Sameer Nicholas Patham struggled to breathe despite his supplementary oxygen. Here, where temperatures drop to -30° Celsius and the ambient oxygen is 70% lower than we breathe at sea level, every step was torture. ● But his Sherpa friends calmly and easily climbed past, carrying an average weight of 16kg. “They are superhumans,” recalls Sameer, who experienced firsthand what he describes as the incredible feats of the Sherpas, a Tibetan ethnic group globally known for their natural mountaineering skills. ● Yet if the same Sherpas were to visit Varanasi and fall sick, the hospital’s doctors would find that they had high blood pressure and low hemoglobin compared to average plains dwellers. Often such Sherpas were prescribed unnecessary medication. And though Chinese and American scientists had isolated the gene that allowed high-altitude adaptation, a biochemical analysis was always lacking – until a recent deep study by a team of Indian scientists investigated how Himalayans have survived in their challenging habitat for centuries. ● The Sherpa people are world-famous for high-altitude living and mountaineering. According to the 2011 census, there were some 16,012 Sherpas in India. Though there are other high-altitude Himalayan ethnic groups, the Sherpas dominate the portering profession to the extent that porters are commonly called “Sherpas” by outsiders. ● Other high-altitude ethnic groups include the Tibetans, inhabiting the Tibet Autonomous Region, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan in China; they are also found in India, Bhutan and Nepal. There are 182,685 Tibetans in India, scattered in Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Karnataka and Uttarakhand. Then there are the Lepchas, an aboriginal tribe of Darjeeling and Sikkim, in the Himalayas, calling themselves “Rong Migyit” (Lepcha people). They number 47,331. Additionally, the Bhutia tribe is scattered around the Himalayan region and number 229,954.

Tyler Durden | Dependency On The State Is The Core Of The Takeover Plot Of Humanity | Most of you have entered the final stage of your voluntary acceptance of mass slavery, and that slavery is fully dependent on the concept of fear, compliance to a false ‘authority,’ and total dependence on the very tyrant called government, whose plan is to control the world by controlling the common, ignorant, and apathetic collective crowd called ‘the people.’ The most vital component of this ‘Great Reset’ agenda, is for the majority to be dependent on the State, and that phenomenon is now close at hand. The final foundation of all restriction, control of financial and monetary transactions, and control of movement, will hinge on the farcical fraud called manmade ‘climate change.’ The speed of this agenda has accelerated far past earlier time projections. Once mass dependence is in place, there will no longer be any chance of a free society. Believe nothing, trust no State representative at any level, trust no mainstream media, and question everything!

Fifty-one Million (51,000,000) citizens are REQUIRED to participate to practice evacuating to shelters or underground safe spaces during the 20-minute exercise. | The drill, scheduled for 2:00 PM on Wednesday, August 23, will see many drivers required to pull over to the side of roads and the exits to subway stations closed with commuters required to remain inside, a statement from the South Korean Interior Ministry said. ● The release said the 20-minute drill is part of a larger exercise to test the South Korean government’s response to potential threats including “advanced nuclear missile threats, cyber attacks, drone terrors, etc.” ● The prime minister also called on South Koreans to take the drills seriously, something that hasn’t always been the case. ● The Interior Ministry said 17,000 shelters would be open nationwide, and locations are searchable in popular Korean online apps. ● The South Korean prime minister said the civil defense drill would be held in conjunction with large-scale US-South Korea military exercises that have drawn sharp criticism from Pyongyang in the past. ● It will also come less than a week after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol travels to the United States for a trilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, where “the continued threat posed by” North Korea will be on the agenda, according to a White House statement.

YouTube has introduced a new “medical misinformation policy” that will censor any medical or health-related content that doesn't align with claims made by the World Health Organization (WHO). | YouTube earlier had a “COVID-19 Misinformation Policy” webpage that stated that the platform doesn’t allow any content that “poses a serious risk of egregious harm” and spreads “medical misinformation” contradicting what the WHO or local health authorities (LHA) say about the COVID-19 pandemic. The webpage now redirects to a “medical misinformation policy” page that expands the censorship rule to “specific health conditions and substances” rather than COVID-19 alone.

In the video below from the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russia just publicly accused Deep State actors and Big Pharma of manufacturing the COVID pandemic to take over the world. | They even listed Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Soros, of being the main “Ideologists” behind the plot. Below, a video from a Briefing by the Chief of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov: "Pentagon conducts uncontrolled dual-use research in circumvention of international obligations under the BTWC (Biological and Toxin Weapons Control Treaty)."Put succinctly, the Russian Military officially and publicly accuses the US of releasing bioweapons to create “crisis situations”, and claims the US is planning to do it again. This is the biggest story in human history, and yet it is somehow remaining largely unnoticed. UPDATE 11:22 AM EDT --Television stations all over Russia are carrying this bombshell accusation as a major leading news story. In this interview, Lt General Igor Kirillov goes even further in the accusation, saying the US is going to do it again.

Mike Whitney | The Biden Administration is implementing a plan to draw Taiwan into a direct military confrontation with the People’s Republic of China. | The plan bears many similarities to the strategy that was used in Ukraine where Russia was goaded into invading the country in response to emerging threats to its national security. In this case, Beijing is expected to react to mounting challenges to its territorial integrity by US proxies and their political allies operating in Taiwan. These incitements will inevitably lead to greater material support from the United States which has stealthily worked behind the scenes (and in the media) to create a crisis. The ultimate objective of these machinations, is to arm, train and provide logistical support for Taiwanese separatists who will spearhead Washington’s proxy war on China. According to a number of independent reports, there is already growing operational collaboration between the Taiwanese Army and US Armed Forces. That collaboration will undoubtedly deepen after hostilities break out and the island is plunged into war.

Katherine Watt | Building the case to prosecute members of Congress, presidents, HHS and DOD secretaries and federal judges for treason under 18 USC 2381. | I started looking closely at the legal architecture supporting the Covid national prison panopticon on Jan. 30, 2022, after hearing Attorney Todd Callender’s interview, which provided information about the American domestic legal framework; how it fit with the oddly-coordinated pandemic story told by governments worldwide; and how it relates to the World Health Organization International Health Regulations of 2005 at the center. ● Prior to that day, I’d spent a lot of time, with increasing confusion and alarm and despair, trying to figure out why the U.S. Constitutional legal system hadn’t put a stop to the nonsense as its nonsensicality became obvious to so many people. Why did it continue, with no end in sight, and not even a glimpse of a path to the end?

Did the Medical Countermeasures Consortium run #COVID?

The Australian, American, British & Canadian #military forces formed this consortium to dominate COVID response.

Australia joined the consortium in 2012 under the Labor-Gillard government.

A military-pharmaceutical… pic.twitter.com/hAIPyqEehE

— Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 (@MRobertsQLD) August 9, 2023

Sasha Latypova | No, silly, that's Australia! The US Congress is chasing lab leaks, yelling Fauci-bad, and fundraising for their re-election campaigns as usual. | This speech should go down in history as one of significant acts of bravery and speaking the truth on behalf of the people. He has asked the correct question: was it a civilian health event? Or was it a military campaign? Has the pharmaceutical industry donned military fatigues? ■ I shared my research into the nature of “covid pandemic” on request from Australian colleagues over the past couple of years. This was a military mass killing campaign using “countermeasures” - chemical-biological and psychological/informational weapons under pretense of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics, “news from reliable sources” and “health advice from trusted authorities”. ■ Brook Jackson filed a whistleblower case against Pfizer under False Claims Act in September 2020, and continues this fight on behalf of all of us, people of the world who have been targeted by this war crime. Here in the US, however, several US Congresspeople and other gleaming politicians have access to the same information, and have been sitting on it for many months. I know because I and Katherine Watt provided it to at least some of them. Even more gleaming media pundits and world renowned health freedom experts are spinning endless cycles discussing “allowed” topics - Fauci bad, China bad, Pfizer bad, myocarditis and spike injuries, Pfizer lied about transmission, vaccine mandates bad, etc, etc. Let’s do another hearing about the origin of the virus… Is it really a leak, or should we still revisit the bat theory? Let’s talk about UFOs now. Kumbaya (TM) Sage Hana.

Between 170k and 345k excess deaths in Japan since the COVID mRNA experiment started in April 2021. | As many as 345,000 Japanese have died in “excess” between 25-Apr-21 and 26-Mar-23 (and still counting), a truly unprecedented mortality event in the last quarter of a century. Prior to 25-Apr-21, excess mortality had not exhibited any signs of unusual activity, in spite of the alleged deadliness of COVID that was rife in the western world for an entire year. Perhaps just coincidentally, Japan started administering the experimental mRNA product to its citizens a couple of weeks before death rates soared, an experiment they evidently did not need to take part in. Also, perhaps coincidentally, each subsequent wave of death appears to follow a new round of “vaccinations”.

■ mRNA Covid jabs have caused silent heart damage to tens of millions of people, a shocking new study suggests

Simplicius The Thinker | Momentous things are setting into motion geopolitically all over the globe, most notably in Africa. A coup took down the president of Niger, a country of critical importance to France and the NATO bloc. The Atlanticists are extremely worried now. ● France is the #1 country in the world for total percentage of nuclear use for energy generation, and #2 in total number of nuclear power plants. I’ve seen figures that Niger supplies upwards of 40% of France’s Uranium, though some have it in the 15-25% range, as well as 25% to the EU itself. ● Now, the coup leader Abdourahamane Tchiani has reportedly banned Uranium and gold exports to France, which could devastate their energy industries, though it could be just a tactic for renegotiations; Naturally, Ukraine blames Russia.

UN & WEF admit they CENSOR Search Results & pay Big Tech & Influencers to shape Public Opinion on Climate Change & COVID-19 | The World Economic Forum held the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings towards the end of September 2022, convening at the same time as the United Nations General Assembly. In those meetings, UN officials declared that they apparently “own the science”. They also admitted to; among other things

● Partnering with Google to censor search results that don’t fit the official narrative and ensure their propaganda is top of the list in relation to things such as ‘Covid-19’ and ‘Climate Change’ in order to shape public opinion.
● Partnering with Big Tech Social Media companies to boost propaganda messaging on things such as Covid-19 and Climate Change in order to shape public opinion.
● Giving millions to social media influencers to spout their propaganda for them in order to shape public opinion.

Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at the United Nations, highlighted that the UN had partnered with several big tech companies, including TikTok and Google, to control COVID and climate narratives while claiming, “We own the science.” On the topic of controlling the climate change narrative, Fleming remarked that the UN had partnered with Google so that the unelected globalists’ authoritative narratives would appear at the top of search results.

💬 “We partnered with Google,” said Fleming, adding, “for example, if you Google ‘climate change,’ you will, at the top of your search, you will get all kinds of UN resources.

💬 “We started this partnership when we were shocked to see that when we Googled ‘climate change,’ we were getting incredibly distorted information right at the top.

💬 “We’re becoming much more proactive. We own the science, and we think that the world should know it, and the platforms themselves also do,” she added.

New population figures in Japan mark two new unwelcome records for a nation sailing into uncharted territory in terms of demographics, but one that many other countries are also expected to face in the future. | Japan's population plummeted in all 47 of its prefectures for the very first time as the number of nationals fell below 800,000 people, figures released by the Japanese government revealed on Wednesday. ● The latest data shows that deaths in Japan reached a record high of over 1.56 million in 2022, while there were just 771,000 births during the same period. ● Even a substantial increase in foreign residents of over 10%, bringing the total to 2.99 million, could not halt the overall slide in Japan's population. The population has been declining for 14 consecutive years, reaching 122.42 million in 2022 ● It is important to note that Japan is not alone in experiencing a decline in birth rates. The average fertility rate for wealthy nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development group is 1.66, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 required to maintain population numbers.