Posted on 06/30/2015 4:48:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Women in Okinawa have more babies and live longer than women from almost anywhere else in Japan.
If data from the statistics bureau and labor ministry are any guide, it has as much to do with work-life balance as the prefecture’s sun-drenched beaches and crystal-clear waters.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare statistics on average number of children per woman, of which the most recent data is from 2013, women in Okinawa give birth to an average 1.94 children over their lifetime, the highest rate in Japan. Tokyo comes in last, with women in the capital on average having 1.13 babies.
Life expectancy for women on the subtropical island chain is 87, only fractionally below top-ranked Nagano.
There’s a lesson in here for the rest of the country, as it fights to stem a shrinking population and boost female participation in the workforce.
Okinawans, women and men, work fewer overtime hours than people almost anywhere else in Japan, while their counterparts in Tokyo work about four hours more each month. That means more time for couples to raise a family, and increases the likelihood that men may share more of the burden of looking after children.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
Probably a higher percentage of American DNA in the bloodstream there.
I suppose Okinawan women are looked upon with scorn by the feminazi’s of the world, being ‘breeders’ and all.
If it’s ever found out that these Japanese women are (gasp!) happy, the s__t’s really going to hit the fan.
> women in Okinawa give birth to an average 1.94 children over their lifetime, the highest rate in Japan.
That’s still not replacement rate. Not good for Japan.
Japan is way below replacement rate and is a dying society.
Seventy years ago our troops were fighting in deep mud. Sometimes supplies had to be carried by hand because the vehicles couldn't get through.
But what about today? Next 10 day forecast is all thunderstorms and chance of thunderstorms, with a couple of partly cloudy days.
‘There’s a lesson in here for the rest of the country, as it fights to stem a shrinking population and boost female participation in the workforce.’
If you want to increase the birth rates, boosting female participation in the workforce is not the way to do it. Limiting taxes and offering real advantages for having children including social acceptance of large families is much more productive.
I have been following that story it makes me sad
How sad. The pill sure is an effective human pesticide.
Too bad no one listened to Paul VI.
Consequences of Artificial Methods17. Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law. Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.
So I’ve heard. Be interesting to observe.
I had four. If they want to keep their economy afloat and support all those oldsters they better bump it up.
Yet I bet they do better in 50 years from now than those that import population replacements.
1.94 still isn’t even replacement.
Their problems are quickly becoming our problems. How many ‘good Christians’ have families of 2 or fewer children, by design?
China has even a worse social problem. Fifty million more men than women is a breeding ground for social instability.
That is all well and good, but when we leave our society to be expanded by illiterates and immigrants, that is a true problem.
How many taxpayers have been aborted and contracepted out of society over the last five decades simply for the benefit of a new car or bigger house? Would our society been better off with fifty-five million more Natural Born American citizens or the fifty million foreign born that have legally immigrated? That doesn't include the 12-40 million who are here illegally.
As for Japan, They will most certainly be absorbed by a greater power, one that has an expanding population. I would figure Indonesia or even the Philippines is the most likely potential invader. The law of the jungle is still the way of the World and those who don't reproduce disappear and in very short order.
...women in Okinawa give birth to an average 1.94 children over their lifetime, the highest rate in Japan.
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How sad is it that 1.94 per woman is high?
Exactly!
“Sun drenched beaches? Has the author ever been there?”
I was stationed on Okinawa 1964-1965, and found the beaches to be great and the women even better.
Ahh, I miss White Beach, but I really miss Masako.
They can just solve it the way our politicians have decided to: flood the country with the illiterate but prodigious refuse of the third world.
That's what I was wondering.
Spent a couple of months there, not bad, but certainly no "island paradise" - weather cloudy and cool, beaches - meh, rain was down-right nasty.
But the native Ryuku's were very warm people.
Yes. I have spent a lot of time on Okinawa and I can tell you that Americans that Marry the locals have more children then the average.
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