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 ...
I have lived on Okinawa for the better part of 4 years. It is a beautiful Island and the beaches are beautiful if you know where to find them. The outer Ryukyus Islands are even better. I went to Hawaii and I much preferred Okinawa over Hawaii.
Powerful.
“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.”
Your entire post is a good read, but these questions should give any American pause, particularly any American in a leadership or influential position.
I imagine if schools and universities were worth their salt, they would explore these sobering questions.
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