Posted on 01/03/2015 10:30:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I began reading this, read the absurd hyperbole and immediately thought, this must be that Zero Hedge crap.
I scrolled and a indeed it is.
Japan could probably use a few less people. What they don’t need is unrestricted immigration to “fix” the problem.
Maybe they have enough people already and need to reach an optimal level before having a chance to stabilize their economy? Just as long as they're not letting in droves of third worlders that breed like rabbits and live off of the welfare state.
Dai Nippon Teikoku died September 2, 1945.
This is just the aftermath.
Here’s the plan.... we move to Japan and conservatives take over....
Imho of course...
5.56mm
Way its going—they will become a part of the Chinese Han Empire in the future—as they were in the past.
They can build a eugenics factory.
The factory children can be raised by robots that look like Hello Kitty.
Hence more burdens on young workers, less and less babies, and when those young workers reach their own old age --- nada. Bupkis. It'll all go to the Robots and, maybe, the Muslims (once they claw their way up through the Philippines.)
Anyone wonder why robots are being developed for, especially, geriatric care?
Kind of doubt it. Japan could probably have nukes in the blink of an eye.
Population implosion is the ultimated failed policy.
It not just the number of people but age distribution of the population.
The Japanese are known for changing policy radically on a dime once society can see current policy is a failure.
It will take some very illiberal policies to reverse Japan’s fertility rate.
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
The oldest pottery ever found was made by the Jomon of Japan, the ancestors of the Ainu.
>> this must be that Zero Hedge crap <<
I’ve never bothered to read Durden’s writings. The headlines and extracts on FR always seemed so nutty that he wasn’t worth my time.
Moreover, my impression of his nuttiness was definitely reinforced a few minutes ago when I saw the phrase “hyper-Keynesian, hyper-monetarist policies” in the extract for this thread.
That phrase is an oxymoron if ever there was one, a total contradiction in terms, because a policy simply can’t be “hyper-Keynesian” and “hyper-monetarist” at the same time. It’s either one or the other.
Still, in spite of the fact that Durden has a serious lack of understanding about certain economic matters, there does appear to be a looming “demographic disaster” for Japan. Even worse, the same demographic trends seem to be emerging in the USA, with marriage and birth rates now at an all-time low. I guess I’m glad that I won’t be around in the year 2115 to witness the decline and eventual collapse of our once-great nation.
China is not that far behind Japan actually. In fact, Japan is just ahead of the curve for almost all developed nations.
T.S. Eliot’s “This is the way the world ends...” made flesh, so to speak.
Its odd how every commentator I read elsewhere, from left to right, all throw out the cliche that Japan is in decline (or will decline further) because it does not accept immigration. The Japanese are a very homogenous people. They smartly understand - if they brought in Africans or Pakistanis, they would immediately create an underclass that would NEVER become Japanese, would be constant outsiders, and would be a source of constant friction with the majority Japanese. Even in its so-called "decline" Japan will remain a stable, peaceful nation with a high-standard of living, because it has a common culture which will keep it that way.
They should abandon Tokyo and start going back to farming.
Actually, the USA is both now. Large budget deficits with highly interventionist Fed monetary policy. Beyond that though - what Zero Hedge refers to are those of the central planning mentality. That government or its related organs can manipulate people and the economy to perform how it feels necessary. Some do it through fiscal policy, others try to do it through monetary policy. Either way, the attitude is the same.
The Japanese nation will be around long after America has disappeared.
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