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Consumers still spending, births falling

Japanese households are doing better than had seemed to be the case, with data this week giving upbeat signals on both wages and consumer spending. They are not, however, having babies: fifty years after the demographic tide turned, it still came as a surprise this week to see how few children are being born.    

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