Japan accepts 27 refugees last year, rejects 99%

The Global Post ^ | January 22, 2016 | Agence France-Presse

[2ndDivisionVet]

They have to make exceptions for Muslim heads of state.

[Bon mots]

Too many.
Send them all back.

[tbw2]

Japan had issues even taking in thousands of Japanese-Brazilians, who were at least partially if not fully Japanese ethnically.
Japan, though, could reach out to South America to call back a number of its brethren.
Or end the rural dominated legislature (MacArthur drew political boundaries they couldn’t change, so now 1 farmer’s votes equals 10 city votes) so they can develop much more land.
If it wasn’t a choice between a pet or a partner and kid, they’d see more people having more children because housing prices would come down.

[tbw2]

I wonder how many of those former Soviet nation leaders are very familiar with Russia’s Chechnya problem as well as France’s banlieus (no go areas for police), and are ensuring they don’t have EITHER problem.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“The US is barely holding steady.”

No it’s not. The US fertility rate has been below minimum replacement level (2.1) since 2008. But the problem in America of not having enough children to replace the older generations goes back to the mid-1970s.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/24/is-u-s-fertility-at-an-all-time-low-it-depends/

[central_va]

They need immigration to survive.

Bull, the replacement rate thing is a myth. A slow decline in population is not a bad thing.

[MV=PY]

"Bull, the replacement rate thing is a myth. A slow decline in population is not a bad thing."

I'm interested. Will you explain why? Or point me to a link?

[MinorityRepublican]

Japan is a country of 120 million people on an Island. When their population shrink to 1 million people, they will still be all right. The country will remain Japanese.

[MinorityRepublican]

Bull, the replacement rate thing is a myth. A slow decline in population is not a bad thing.

When the Black Death pandemic devastated Europe, laborers suddenly became valuable. And eventually that led to the Renaissance!

[central_va]

The extreme example would be hunting any species to near extinction levels. As long as breeding doesn't become a problem and the eradication halts the remanding animals are usually generically superior and have a easy time of it with plentiful resources available to a smaller population. This usually applies to predator species.

Even in humans their have been close calls and near extinctions.