“2025 is the ‘Hill of Last Hope” for Japan, because the last large cohort of youth has reached marriage age and can have kids. But in the Tokyo area, there is a growing trend of people not having children even after getting married.”
https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/937848
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I mean who has enough money to support themselves let alone a family?
Is this an issue of economic status or are people just not having children all across the board?
Maybe Japanese see how hard it was for them growing up and living in this country that they don’t want to deal with that by having children.
The thing I don’t understand is these young Japanese have the ability to make the system into something they want if they don’t like how it’s going.
Surely the fact that Tokyo is overcrowded, often far away from familial support structures for a lot of the young people who were basically forced to come here for work has nothing to do with it….
Why? Shits expansive. Kids are even more expensive.Â
My dad always used to say kids were “high investment, low return”Â
Maybe turn to what I am looking at and do single parent surrogacy?
There is no hope for Japan. The govt efforts have all been about taking care of chiuldren, rather than setting the conditions where children are born. They should have been working to improve working life and salaries so people could actually afford to marry.
They didn’t and now it’s too late to do anything useful. The disease is terminal and Japan will have a quick slide into poverty and then third-world status. My wife and I are old enough that the system will probably allow us a decent old age before utter collapse, and my kid has a foreign passport so can escape when they need to.
Young people “aren’t ionterested in politics” so they will never vote for anything different unless stirred up by the hucksters on the far-right.
It’s literally hiopeless. There is zero chance anything will ever improve unless you are already a 1%er.
lol japan is cooked
I’m sure this problem can be easily solved by a one-time payment of 3000 yen for new couples and a free one month bus pass per baby.
The only way to afford marriage and kids on a Japanese salary is to live with your parents/inlaws lol
the problem is the people in charge have done nothing to try and avoid this, and the separation or support is a huge demotivating issue but also money issues. but there is also social issues that I see constantly. it’s not just japan. the three countries I move too have also suff from this. where issues just get ignored because the people in charge will often look at everything as a cost, but don’t even seem to have any thought to th benefit.