Japan’s Population Crisis: Why the Country Could Lose 80 Million People
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Japan’s Population Crisis: Why the Country Could Lose 80 Million People
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/japans-population-crisis-why-the-country-could-lose-80-million-people/
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ss: Japan faces a demographic time bomb unlike anything seen in modern history. The nation that once seemed poised to become an economic superpower is now rapidly shrinking, with projections showing it could lose almost two-thirds of its current population by the end of this century.
As Kazuhisa Arakawa, a researcher and columnist specializing in celibacy in Japan [noted](https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a852d3b142b6933803b78626d7a5535af4c78b02?page=4), “The future is simply the continuation of the present.” If Japan cannot make its present livable for young adults, it cannot expect them to create its future.
… and … I don’t see a problem with this. Growing Populations are the no.1 cause of the problems we now have.
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If you want to see this in America, look at upstate NY
All along the Canadian border. Tiny towns with 100 houses for sale with nobody to buy them
Could immigration from third world countries solve this?
(Ofc I understand that this isn’t acceptable by the Japanese population(or most populations in countries facing such issues), im just curious if anyone has done some analysis)
All wealthy countries see birthrates decline. Japan is one the worst countries for integrating immigrants. Even multi generational immigrant families don’t become citizens. They brought this on themselves.
Please, just pay me. Living wage, enough to commute by car and i promise ill start a family there. I ask the bare minimum to live there. I never believed in “depression” until i visited there. I make more than enough money now but it doesnt make me happy
Other than long work hours, they have a great quality of life. Sure their population and GDP isn’t growing but Japan, at least at this point in time, look to have a lot of things done right for its people.
At some point this may be an issue, but they certainly don’t seem to be dealing with a lot of “crisis” at the same scale as other countries. They seem to be able to manage projects at scale very well. I feel like this crisis bell gets struck every year, specifically for Japan… I don’t think the people of Japan really seem to care about it. I am not saying the Japan government is happy with this, but I don’t think they are overly worried, if they were, there would be sweeping incentives to have kids and other programs, imo.
The reality is a lot of developed nations have shrinking populations, without immigration and I don’t think Japan is even in the top 5…could be wrong.
When you overwork your youth you can make huge gains, but at the expense of huge losses in the future. Especially if you put all your women to work too. But the old people who will make the gains dont give a fuck. They won’t be around to see the losses. Since the old people are in charge then the decline is unstoppable.
I find it interesting that the sentiment for china’s similar demographics are very different. I can’t remember who but a Chinese YouTuber once put it like this “no one in China thinks China should have a billion people, and no one outside of China is worried either”
I’m not sure why Japan, Korea, etc are constantly being front page news with this crisis. America is dealing with it too. The only thing hiding this crisis for us is immigration.
Also calling it a crisis seems a bit quick. The generational wealth and cheaper housing wave is gonna be something we should consider. We just need to adjust to the new population norm.
Mankind has dealt with overpopulation for so long we assume it’s a bad thing if population declined. I think social programs / technology needs time to adjust.
Is this a bad thing? I look at the island of Japan on google earth and it is clearly overpopulated.
Our society must aim for a fivefold birthrate for declining birthrate countermeasures and gender equality, by transplanting uteruses into males before they reach the age of reason.
Isn’t increasing immigration the simplest solution here?
They should give out some no-qualification citizenships. I’ll go.
It seems no matter where you look at in the world, if a population is decreasing its having similar issues across its communities. The problems are obvious: Shit pay, shit housing, shit work enviroment and uncertainty for the near future and yet despite having a clear pattern, the people who have the power that could make changes are not making them.
A refusale to raise wages to match the inflation better, new homes aren’t build to enable family planning and those that are around are on sale for prices that regular people can’t afford without going into lifelong debt or doing some unethical shit here and there.
People are too tired for family. Too broke to get one started and too exhausted to partake in it. There’s too many roadblocks set in place that hard work alone can’t remove.
Ofcourse there’s other factors in place for each society but what’s commonly around worldwide are issues like these.
This is also happening in SK and China.
This is the issue. China, SK, and Japan don’t really have a path to citizenship. They have to start opening themselves up to immigration to offset their aging population. They really struggle with this concept culturally. I’m married to an Asian woman and they really struggle with this idea that immigrants can come and become Chinese or Korean or Japanese.
I try to explain to her that within a generation or so families that immigrate to the United States become American.
I could move to Japan. I’ll never be Japanese to them. My kids won’t, my grandkids won’t, etc etc.
I can’t help but remember that the last political figure that told Japanese men to touch grass and get ass ended up being shot.
Rich people ruin life for everyone.
Japan has been in their thrall for centuries.
They’ve ignored so many problems, avoided systemic change, and will have to reset their society or it will slowly crumble
They will be like the current South Korea in 10~20 years