[A. Pole]

What happened in the 1990s was what Yamada Masahiro of Tokyo’s Gakugei University calls the first ‘low birth-rate recession’. It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the stupidity, economists — the stupidity of thinking you can buck demography.

Japan might go through a long period of relative slowdown. But it will survive as an intact nations. So Japanese will do fine and much better that Lebanon or EUrabia.

[Tax-chick]

Japan might go through a long period of relative slowdown. But it will survive as an intact nation.

That's a possibility ... but if the population, and especially the fighting-age population, gets small enough, the Japanese islands are going to look good to some expansionist power.

[sassbox]

But it will survive as an intact nations. So Japanese will do fine and much better that Lebanon or EUrabia.

As long as Japan does not allow massive Muslim immigration to make up for their birth dearth, they will survive. I don't think that Japan will be as foolish as Europe in this regard either. Everything I've read about the topic says that Japanese society is rather xenophobic and reluctant to admit immigrants, even from places like Korea or Vietnam.