Posted on 04/29/2010 6:45:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
send our illegals over there.
“Japan’s Geriatric Future (How will a shrinking economic power handle a rapidly aging population?”
Keep bringing in Moose limbs that multiply like rabbits with their barely teen age brides...it’s working pretty well for Europe!
Japan could actually seriously consider overhauling their immigration program. Thus far, only a few ethinic groups have bothered to apply for immigration -— Koreans, Chinese and Taiwanese ( who are also Chinese ).
There are a few caucasians who have become Japanese citizens but you can count them on your fingers.
The rest that I know of are American Sumo wrestlers from the Islands.
Coming soon to an America near you...too bad those 30+ million aborted babies weren’t around to pay into Socialist Security, huh?
i’m sure many people would love to immigrate there, but i don’t
think they are big multiculturalists. i think they would rather have
population problems than immigration problems.
yes, it certainly can be managed better. i still don’t think
the japanese want to import people.
“ineffectual, because the system makes it so impossibly difficult for women to have children and a job.” A 2005 Goldman Sachs study found that if Japanese women participated in the workforce at the same rate as American women, Japan’s GDP would begin to grow much faster.”
They still don’t get it do they? This will fix their GDP problem, but it won’t fix the demographic problem.
Do what I did. Marry a Japanese woman, and get her pregnant a lot.
It’s called repopulation.
RE: Do what I did. Marry a Japanese woman, and get her pregnant a lot.
It’s called repopulation.
Yeah, but do you both live in Japan and do your children ?
If not, you’re adding to America’s population, not Japan’s.
I don’t care who you “import,” an aging population means a dead country. Most innovation and invention comes from the young, and not immigrants, who typically are older when they arrive.
This avoids many problems, and introduces some new ones of its own. There is no quick, easy fix for this long-standing issue.
China is not far behind...
RE: Japan’s nationalism and ethnocentricity
How about a slow change in cultural attitude through education ? We live in a global economy now and I am sure that most Japanese are aware of this demographic problem.
One other possibility would be to ENCOURAGE more children via incentives.
If they had not have been aborting most of their children for these many years...
I wonder how the abortion rate in Japan is compared to that of the USA. Do you know of any reliable source for figures ?
RE: Do what I did. Marry a Japanese woman, and get her pregnant a lot.
It’s called repopulation.
>>Yeah, but do you both live in Japan and do your children ?
>>If not, you’re adding to America’s population, not Japan’s.
Yeah, you’re right. My wife doesn’t want to live in Japan.
Plan would pay Japanese families to have kids
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/japan.children/index.html
Japan’s birthrate is one of the lowest in the world. With about a quarter of the country’s population older than 65, the forecast is that by 2050, this will reach 40 percent if things don’t change fast.
Japanese families have kept their children low in number because of financial difficulties. Out of this comes the “cash for kids” plan, a brainchild of Japan’s new ruling Democratic Party to pay parents $3,400 a year per child until the child reaches high school–a program which is criticized by some.
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