shoshika
n.— «The decline in Japan’s birth rate is so severe they have invented a word for it—”shoshika,” meaning a society without children.» —“Japan sounds alarm on birth rate” by Jonathan Head in Tokyo BBC Dec. 3, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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