I hate to ask this, but is illegal immigration the only reason we are still a “young country”?
Is it “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”??
The good news is that they are on islands — and needn’t worry about being invaded by Third World barbarians.
While traveling in Japan, once you get away from the cities, many of the villages have died. Just ghost towns. The young people move to the cities and they old folks die out....
Their problem is it’s damned expensive to live there and the people have enough wealth to live well, but not to live well and have children. So, they chose to live well and be childless. (They keep lots of cats instead.)
Those who do have children tend to invest heavily in just the one so that child will do well. If they had more they couldn’t afford to invest as heavily and the many children would have (in their opinion) a disadvantage competing with the other expensively educated children.
A similar phenomenon is happening in America. Wealthy Americans are having fewer children and sending them to private schools. If they had more children they’d be sending them to the sewer we call public education.
Fertility is fun and fixes the problem.
“F*** for the future!”
Robotics
Be fruitful and multiply... or be single and buy all the neat stuff on TV!
Pretty obvious what people choose. The media is more pernicious than even I can imagine.
Oh my. This coupled with Japan’s huge illegal drug problem and out-of-wedlock birth rate is troubling.
The vast majority of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews have accepted birth control and abortion. Result: Islam, which is organized demonic possession, will take over the world and turn it into a living hell.
In the U.S., in 1968, the year of Humanae Vitae, ONE Catholic bishop stood firm on birth control: Patrick Aloysius O’Boyle, Archbishop of Washington.
Make child bearing EASIER in Japan and things will change. It’s too expensive right now.
Of course, the 250,000 abortions performed annually in Japan have nothing to do with their situation.
Ninety-three million Americans have dropped out of the labor pool, yet our GDP is still rising. I’m not so sure about this “demographic death spiral”.
One of the main problems Japan has is the fact that they do not allow non Japanese to become citizens. They have a very low to zero immigration rate and if the younger crowd isn’t making babies, that’s a dangerous mix.
Follow the Church - future.
Don’t follow the Church - no future (not even in heaven).
Not sure I see anything wrong with a stable or even declining population.
With technology fewer workers produce more today than in the past.
Therefore, there are fewer people to share the gross national product of a country.
What advantage is there to import millions of people into a country?
Almost all countries currently have excess workers. Importing more people only adds to the unemployment problem, not to mention the social problems that come with imported people.
Japan sure hasn’t had it easy since the height of the mid to late 80’s Evil Corporate Japan Taking Over the World movies.