Japan's population to plummet by almost 40 million by 2065

[Controversy]

Highly educated populations have less children

If my memory serves me correct, a family needs 2.1 children to increase future population.

Educated women are more likely to have less than 2 children.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

What does that have to do with feminism either? Again it goes back to the work culture. This is a society where there is so much pressure on people from a young age to get perfect grades and then get a "perfect" job that many people, especially men, say fukk it and effectively drop out of society.

When people from my firm go to Japan they come back stunned at the society. They work significantly longer and harder than Americans and Europeans, but aren't as effective. These dudes are literally riding on the train for 2 hours, working for 16 hours, riding the train home for 2 hours, and then sleeping sleeping for 3-4 hours before doing it all again.

Statistically, America is the most overworked country. It's rare to find someone who has a regular 9 to 5 in America.

I think Japan has more of a perfectionist culture. When men don't measure up to being a perfect career robot, they drop out and become hikkokmori.

I remember seeing this weird footage back in the 90's of Japanese women crying en masse and buying all of the shoes out of a shoe store and ripping the store to shreds because none of them could find a man. shyt was crazy looking.

What is also crazy is that it seems that women are generally more submissive in Japanese culture and even open rape is lightweight acceptable there. Most of their porn centers around rape and you can find articles where women are groped and raped on the train and no one does shyt but looks the other way. You'd think that alone would boost the birth rate.

I think Japan lacks a trash class of people of all races who will fukk and reproduce regardless because of government safety net programs like we have in Amerikkka. But Amerikkka is quickly becoming Japan in the fact that there are so many jobless and underemployed or heavily indebted men and women who are putting off starting families and having kids altogether. This is part of the reason why the cac population is declining along with the heroin "epidemic". And this is also why Amerikkka will become Estados Unidos by the time we're legit old because them fresh off the border Hispanics creating hella babies while planned parenthood aborting black babies by the tens of thousands and meth/heroin/alcohol killing hella white folks.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

They had several chances to course correct.

They failed and this is the result.

By design.

 

[T-K-G]

let's colonize it

Japan is one natural disaster from being wiped off the planet

I'd visit but you gotta be crazy to risk staying there long term fault lines+nuclear reactors = extinction

If they moved that shyt somewhere more reliable it'd be a wrap tho

 

[panopticon]

Japan is an island nation without much in the way of arable land or other natural resources.

Supporting their current population (~127 million) requires them to import nearly 60% of all their food and ~85% of all their oil and gas...this is why the Japanese government has been so laser-focused on reducing energy use (and why they're so dependent on nuclear power).

Japan's population falling is a good thing. Rapid population growth (and desperation to acquire the resources necessary to support that growing population) is what drove their colonialist impulse in WWII...population reduction for Japan means a better chance for long-term political stability in East Asia and a more sustainable Japan in general.

I'm of the opinion that ultimately, human beings react to the environmental pressures that they're subjected to...Japan is expensive and crowded, so it makes perfect sense that the Japanese would have less children (or forego having children altogether). As the population decline continues, at some point those pressures lessen (real estate costs, food costs, energy costs, etc.), and we'll see the population stabilize at a new equilibrium.

All the cultural changes are interesting, but I don't think they're the cause of the population decline...instead, I think those cultural changes are a byproduct of the environmental pressures I listed above.

Long story short, the sky isn't falling.

 

[JLova]

Highly educated populations have less children

If my memory serves me correct, a family needs 2.1 children to increase future population.

Educated women are more likely to have less than 2 children.

Not when the government is paying for welfare recipients to have as many kids as they want. Free daycare, and a host of other things like free education. We begging immigrants to come to our country (Canada) and putting hem up in nice apartments.

My wife and I are having 1 kid and that's it. Having 2 or 3 would impact my quality of life and I don't want to raise my kid while struggling. fukk all that. Having a bunch of kids is for the wealthy and/or poor. There's no benefit to middle class...even upper middle class people having a bunch of kids.

 

[panopticon]

Why does everyone think this is a bad thing? This is a win for the working man in Japan: it will put downward pressure on housing costs (on an overcrowded island), and in an increasingly automated economy, it will provide a counterbalance to the increasing downward pressure on wages.

Facts.

 

[Burned Verses]

Some dudes over there are working 600 hours a month. That's 4 hours a day of JUST not working. Not alot of time left to chase ass.

Government Office Cites Overwork in Suicide of A-1 Pictures Staff Member

The lawyer representing the family of a former A-1 Picturesstaff member announced last month that the Shinjuku Labor Standards Inspection Office cited depression due to overwork for the staff member's October 2010 suicide. The Standards Inspection Office reached its decision on April 11.

According to the family's lawyer, the 28-year-old staff member worked at A-1 Pictures as a full-time employee from 2006 to December 2009. During that time, the animation company managed the working hours recorded on the time cards, but medical facilities caring for the staff member record he worked 600 hours a month.

This guy worked on anime for a living, imagine what guys in business are clocking in.

 

[panopticon]

With the cost of living in some areas, what are people to do?

The economy forces people to be career oriented because there isn't much money elsewhere.

$70K+ jobs are scarce for the average person, there was thread here were people scoffed at making 35K a year.

More facts.

 

[Trajan]

Why does everyone think this is a bad thing? This is a win for the working man in Japan: i

How is a smaller working population gonna support all those geriatrics? You're going to have an inverted pyramid with small number of workers supporting everyone else.

 

[Xyrax]

This is what happens when you let feminism run wild. Coming to ameriva soom

nikka what? Its the exact opposite. Japan is much more Conservative, not liberal. That what you get when a large chunk of your population is old as shyt. A fukkload of conservative voters who aren't going to embrace the easy cure to a falling population; relaxed immigration laws. They are xenophobic as fukk and refuse to mingle. They are homogeneous as fukk.

Trying to blame this on feminism when its literally the exact opposite is pretty fukking bold... and ignorant.

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Good. World population needs to come down. I don’t know why people think having too many people competing for scarce resources is a good thing.

There aren’t scarce resources

 

[Coco Loco]

Both of yall points are going directly 2 ways away from each other

Martha

And neither correlate to the story

 

[ZoeGod]

To all those who say the world is overpopulated then you support the cac European theory that Africans should have fewer children. When Africa fully develops the continent will see a massive population boom. Its a young continent where the average age is 22 I think. So with development, you have longer life spans and a drop in infant mortality and drop of deaths from curable diseases. Add this with the declining European population you know why they are scared. They do not want African to develop because the continent will 5-8 billion easy by 2050. That means alot of men in fighting age. This what the euro cacs fear. But their worst nightmares will be a reality.

 

[KingJay]

Can't let this happen. #PAAGSet assemble , we gotta take an emergency trip to Japan.

This summer brehs, before it's too late
Imagine a Coli trip to Japan
Let's get to plannin :kyriesabo::mjpawg: