Japan hopes this new robotic army could be part of the answer to an ever-declining birthrate and shrinking workforce in a country famously wary of opening its shores to immigrants.

由于持续的低出生率以及国际知名的审慎接收移民政策，日本希望这支新的机器人大军能够部分解决随之而来的劳动力减少的状况。

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According to the National Statistical Office, there were 493,189 babies or 1.25 births per woman in 2007, up 10 percent from a year earlier, a spike in Korea's steadily declining birthrate.

根据韩国国家统计局，2007年时全国新生儿数量为493,189，平均每个女性生下1.25个孩子，这比上一年增加了10%，对韩国稳步下滑的出生率来说是一种激增。

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The most immediate impact is a rapidly declining birthrate.

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