On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 04:32:18 GMT, Steve Sundberg  ...
>
>On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 06:01:49 +0900, Michael Cash
><mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>>While skimming through Debito's statement to the High Court, I noticed
>>the following:
>>
>>"According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare,
>>recent years have demonstated a jump in international marriages in
>>Japan, between Japanese and non-.  There are now about 40,000
>>international marriages per annum in Japan--a leap of around 30% since
>>1999.  If those families live in Japan and average about two children,
>>you will eventually have 80,000 new international children every year
>>born here.  In ten years, that will be 800,000."
>>
>>My math skills suck, but something tells me that there's something a
>>bit too 単純 about it for it to be correct. Comments?
>
>For 40,000 couples to have 80,000 children every year, they'd have to
>give birth to twins each and every year. Very doubtful.
>


Try again Steve. It's 40,000 marriages a year, 80,000 births a year.







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