TOKYO -- After seven decades in business, Osaka art supplies company Tsuboyone is preparing to shut down next month. Japan's shrinking student population has gradually reduced the market for the palettes, pencil sharpeners, brush buckets and other products it sells to schools and art colleges.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed "unprecedented" measures to boost births, while experts say the challenge goes hand in hand with improving the overall economy. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
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