日本・中国・韓国 これらの国ではすでに少子化の影響が見え始めています。

Other big economies like US, UK, Germany have increasing populations. Largely because they rely on immigrants. And their birth rates are much higher than Japan’s.

@@uptin 個人的には日本での移民受け入れには反対です。

I live in Romania, an eastern european country which had a terrible economy when communism fell. Even we have started to have immigrants, mostly from countries like Sri Lanka and Nepal. In food delivering business in Romania (at least in the big cities) 90% of the delivery people are immigrants, and on construction sites too.

@@uptin yes i am from tunisia living in germany people are coming everyday from all over the world to work here they figured out really good

Except for the Indians, Nigerians and people from the Horn of Africa. These particular earthlings will reproduce as if they had no inkling of sustainability, or the catastrophic level of species extinction. It is time that all available parties, do their utmost to bring adequate family planning facilities, to these wayward nations.

Similar to Korea, they have the same work culture

Don't forget Middle east and South east Asia they don't have this issue and you know japan they now take many south east asian people to work in japan...

​@@philipfrazee5661I am a Nigerian and presently I have 6 kids and am planning for more what are you going to do about it?

I would argue that is isn't entirely true, because many Western developed nations have had immigration enough to at least sustain the population around the same level. Italy is a bit like Europe's Japan, but Britain and France are growing and are indeed having to come up with ways to limit population growth. The USA could keep growing throughout the whole 21st century.

Its not the end , this normal circle on last 200 Years we got somhting we can call baby boom now evrywithin g going back to normal

They made having kids too expensive.

Yes. Since 2021, young people are dying because of myocarditis and turbocancers 😢😢😢

@@user-ti3wk6zs1r "Natural causes" bro.

Children of Men time

most europe r aging out of existence similar to japan with france, uk and Scandinavia as exception. everyone on else average age in the late 40s some in their 50s. china also facing similar issue, for a country that just been develope over the past 40 years their average age now older then the american. by the end of this century when the african finish their development cycle and join the rest of the world. I dont know what will become of humanity, as all countries on earth r going on a decline trajectory.

Go and do research on the 2million wyte babies in 1850-1910 in the US who were grown in incubators and fields just like cabbages, this is where the cabbage patch kids doll famous in the 90's came from. they were sold in store fronts across America used as indentured servants.. they also grew millions of these babies across France, Italy Germany china Japan Russia Britain... babies were grown not born... they called them the orphan train children who were to help the repopulation of the new world....they say after 4-5 generations clones can no longer procreate.. this maybe the reason for the low birth rate amongst the European

East Europeans are the cheap, knockoff brand of normal white people. We expect them to suck, so it's not news when they do. Japanese have a cool, futuristic society that we aspire to imitate. We expect them to succeed, so it's news when they fail. How mainstream news and history is shown is super racist when you get right down to it.

EXACTLY !! YOU GOT THE POINT !!👍👍👍 PEOPLE NEED TO REST AND GET ENOUGH SLEEP, WORKING FOR LONG HOURS AND NO REST AND SLEEP WILL LEAD TO EXHAUSTION !! HOW CAN YOU GO AND SEE OR MEET YOUR FRIENDS OR YOUR GIRLFRIEND IF YOU HAVE NO TIME FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR BODY IS SO TIRED....SO INSTEAD OF MEETING YOUR FRIENDS AND GO OUTSIDE YOU"D RATHER JUST REST OR SLEEP.

@@yunabelle5583 The Japanese worked longer hours in the 1950s and 60s and had more kids then than now.

Modern Japan is a 3rd world country. Socially, and politically, it is by all means a 3rd world country. The Japanese can look good and be a great nation capable of achieving the impossible... But too often it disappoints shamefully... Japanese people have stagnant minds. It is a curse upon their society and an insult to the high potential of their people which they are not achieving I'm sure the more politicians preach and beg everyone to do something, they'll definitely do it, because that's definitely how human function. If you hadn't picked up on the blasting sarcasm, then wipe yourself off because you are dead. Do these people not realize for something to happen, you have to have a causation and the removal of blockers? Like for example a totally revamped education system, a better workforce union, no overwork, mandatory national service for men and women etc... Etc...❤

@@gordonbgraham exactly

Good point but unfortunately Japan will blame it's population decline to anything except toxic working culture.

I think remote work would help. That cities are not well-suited to raising children. Having more people with more jobs in smaller towns would be a better environment.

Nah. Things never change in Japan.

@@r.d.x7403 Yeah, Japan is massive conservative, lot of things. They'll let the country whither away before they give up on those offices and chairs.

Do you really think Japanese traditional work culture will allow that.noway.

As Japan being one, if not the, most racist countries on Earth...um yeah, not losing any sleep about them dying out.

Hey there, I've recently learned that Nepal has a very high rate of younger peoples are leaving the country for higher education comparing with India, Bangladesh and Srilanka. I would like to know your thoughts about it.

Fix your broken culture at home, don't spread your broken culture.

@@osphranterrufuscheck your ground reality our culture is far more rich and diverse in world ...never been colonised ...loved by world, oldest statue of god found in Nepal is a proof of who we are .... it's true our people are moving towards other country but believe me they will come back to make our nation much more stronger 🇳🇵💐...........

@@LuminousKugelblitz yeah bro percentage of educated youngsters is increasing in Nepal 🇳🇵.For search of higher study and job they are moving towards much more developed country

@@ravigharti2526 I know about the history of Nepal, and you're right. "Modern" Nepal is broken, swarming with Islamists, and most who leave never return.

Moreover the whole world threaten you with decreasing demographics being your doom (because they want to impose their decadent ideology to you) but no one said demography was a linear thing you very well can have your population shrink for a while then come back up.

It's just to expensive to have a kid....Italy and japan are equal in low birth rates.

@@danielbrown3461 This is true. That said, here in our rural area, at least in our circles, there are a lot of parents, many with more children than I've seen in my circles of friends in Canada. Families with 3 or 4 or 5 kids. One of the local private schools is so full there aren't enough teachers so they're hiring parents. Maybe we're just hanging around other parents a lot.

but you're going to go extinct if you continue to refuse to change and grow...

​@@jordanw8382the population is shrinking and the economy has stagnated for many years because of little or no innovation. Even Lee Kuan Yew predicted this two decades ago and argued that the country is better off embracing diversity. You can't be more intelligent than the data.

In Japan and the West both.

Yea

Agree

​@@lowkatherineI also don't wants to be children's

Children equal stress, and cost money. I will not be having children.

and developing countries too, when they develop.

Very true, the only reason this is not happening in the US is because of immigration. People act like it's a curse, but immigration is what keeps industrialized countries alive. In more rural, agrarian lifestyles, children are a valuable asset. In expensive city settings children are essentially expensive pets.

That’s a possibility!

​@@RarebitFiends It is happening in the US though with the white Americans. The US only has a steady population because of immigration unlike European and Asian countries.

@@tylermitchell7679 The US is not one ethnicity. Without immigration, the population would be falling among all ethnicities here. My comment also already said that to anyone with a functioning brain since the majority ethnicity of the US is white. What is your point?

Its just partly true what you wrote , it's not about Immigration,its about refugees from other countries outside EU. Most of them are to blame because of their culture and their unwillingness to integrate or just simply work like we Europians do.

Wow yea this wakayama city I went to was an hour outside of Osaka. So fascinating

Depopulation was caused by social behaviour in the 1990s. It began with techno music and the criminalization of sexual intercourse. It all adds up. Boy girl relationship were frowned on and governments left it too late whiles politicians encouraged legislation that destroyed human population. There is one solution...

The same experience for me

​@@uptinModern Japan is a 3rd world country. Socially, and politically, it is by all means a 3rd world country. The Japanese can look good and be a great nation capable of achieving the impossible... But too often it disappoints shamefully... Japanese people have stagnant minds. It is a curse upon their society and an insult to the high potential of their people which they are not achieving I'm sure the more politicians preach and beg everyone to do something, they'll definitely do it, because that's definitely how human function. If you hadn't picked up on the blasting sarcasm, then wipe yourself off because you are dead. Do these people not realize for something to happen, you have to have a causation and the removal of blockers? Like for example a totally revamped education system, a better workforce union, no overwork, mandatory national service for men and women etc... Etc...❤❤❤

Guess it's a good time to shift to Japan

The problem is the composition of the populace. 50 million composed mostly of old retirees is different then one composed of young energetic workers

The problem is economic. Sufficiently fast population decline = permarecession Slight population decline means very frequent recessions

Keep the women in the home would help

But letting mass immigration in doesn't solve the root of the problem. When the mass immigrants get old, who gonna take care of them?

50 million old sacks of bones with dementia doesn’t sound that powerful tbb

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's own advisor said the country will "disappear" if the fall in birth rate is not arrested.

@@uptin The solution is making more babies not mass importing non-Japanese.

@@wamnicho Feminism isn't all bad but this rampant feminism that prevails now is going to destroy Western civilisation.

@@uptin Japanese politicians are grifters looking for any way to grift more tax dollars.

Other issue is competency crisis. Who will run chem plants, microchip fabs, bio medicine, engineering? Bigger issue than pop is ratio of competent to total pop size.

Let me tell you this as someone who lived in Japan as a student and a young adult who was about to enter the workforce there: the progressiveness is only superficial. The biggest societal issues in Japan come BECAUSE they’re mentally sticking to traditions. Societal structures, rules, the general mindset, working ethics and hierarchical structures never changed for centuries. Be glad you’re living in Germany and never be ashamed. Germany may be lacking in certain technological areas but the German society is mentally far more progressive. A German worker does a job in 40 hours a week, they work efficiently. A Japanese worker however sits at roughly 80 to 100 hours in the office for the same results. Why? Because even their office structures a straight from a time when samurai still existed and even if the worker is not effectively working, if the boss is still there, you better be there too. Stuff that could be revisited by a few exchanged mails have so be talked about in person through a hierarchically adequate chain of communication etc. It’s draining and frustrating. Especially when you’re a woman, you lucked out when you live in a Western European country because those countries actually understood the importance of mental health, innovation and improvement by accepting change. Germany has at least 50 years of societal progress on Japan, a traditionalist, very conservative, inefficient and outdated patriarchal society. Japan is working itself to the ground because they fail to socially modernize. I personally don’t see this changing for at least the next 30 years but I’d love to be proven wrong.

¿¡What the fuck do you guys and why the fuck do you guys say that!?

Japan still has 50% more people than Germany and is similar in size. It's not going to fade away. German culture, on the other hand, will disappear as soon as it converts to Islam.

@@The_Savage_Wombat yeah but... ¿¡will japan's japanese population repopulate again or something!?

@@The_Savage_Wombat you are correct!

Also online dating is not helping either. Apps like tinder are making people more superficial and expecting to match with people who look like models. It is damaging to real dating where you get to have actual conversations with people, go to a venue together and really gage the person out, instead of just going by looks and expecting only 10s. You miss out on the person who may be cute and has a great personality and shares your interests and values by expecting only HAWT HAWT HAWT

Everywhere but Africa and the African demographic globally. Infact the opposite is happening to us. We will be 1 in 4 in the near future n 1 in 3 by turn of h century with the youngest demographic.

70h a week is bad. Unless you're working ON your own business, you're wasting the only resource that can't be bought: time. You should make the hard decisions and re-prioritize. Count how much you make per hour post tax, then how much you're able to save per hour worked, then sum over the time you will be able to work over your lifetime. Take wiser decisions.

Japan stopped being in the future 20-30 years ago.

@@dayla8634 they still use Yahoo! as their main search engine, fax machines and floppy disks. lol

@@blackbelt2000 They have a chance to break out of deflation now though, and start a chain reaction that'll smash the rut. There's hopefully upward pressure on wages now that these companies cant deny anymore.

@@blackbelt2000 Your idea of Japan is the Japan of 30 years ago. No one uses Yahoo, fax machines or floppy discs anymore. Get a calendar

​@@gordonbgrahami agree with the 2 that you mentioned, but they do use fax machine though.

now you just see people arrested for daring to speak about the former how dare japan not be a police state

thom, your comment is very reasoned and correct.

@@ashardalondragnipurake Japan has freedom of speech, but the NHK is closer to the government than the BBC is in Britain for example.

Why is it a dichotomy between immigration & debt?

@redman6790 Because the economy maxed out 30 years ago and the population is due to halve

I don’t see decreasing population as inherently even a bad thing. Some countries need it.

Are you stupid or are you dumb?@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes

@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes So then the most developed countries need it? Death cult crap.

Low birth rates are a phenomenon that occurs in all developed countries. However, Western countries accept immigrants, and East Asia does not accept immigrants.

Do you support mass-immagration?The Western population is rallying against immigration of foreign peoples and extreem right is becoming more and more populair. Higher birthrates are far more sustainable. @@user-mv5bd4lx4u

Japan will survive albeit with a smaller population.

what makes japan unique and fascinating also makes japanese people not willing to have kids

That's what happens when ur a racist homogeneous country that focuses more on career and technology than families

Humanity will deplete our resources with the result being a complete collapse of every society worldwide. Population decline should be welcomed.

​@@sunjames3276(´・ω・`)?

Stay away if it's so depressing for you;.

@@HardPass So the unhappy Japanese should just do the same? I can't stand comments like yours.

@@HardPass, you need to be intelligent to understand his comment.

sounds like every country on earth.

western media always portrays the best image of japan, little do people know the truth of it. same principle applies to the us/uk, they proclaim human rights allllllll the time, but little do people know that allllllllll the mainstream media including CNN, CNBC, BBC are all owned by them, little do people in the world that they lie alllllll the time.

It would be shame to loose east Asian and western culture. No other cultures have done more for humanity than those cultures.

Dont they teach you at schools that black people invented the internet?

Yes, but it's not their duty to breed children they can't afford so Westerners can be entertained by their tea ceremonies.

@@2138Dude Black Japanese gingers.

Humility? Japan? lol

You can’t compare Europe because their populations are rising as a result of immigrants. Japan and South Korea have the lowest birth rates in the world now. I covered South Korea as well kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bKlpmat_kpjIqGg.html

@@uptin Immigration is a form of expediting the decline of the local population and ie the new immigrants population replacing the existing population. The local people will still eventually disappear and be replaced by immigrants for example the Native Americans are fast disappearing in the US.

@@uptin I know but european natives population are declining due to low births

@@uptin If I am to judge the places to where immigration has been let loose, without proper filtering as to who gets in, with hordes of people bringing with them issues they have had in their home countries, most especially their lack of effort towards cultural and societal integration, I'd pick the natural decline of population over chaos. Towns and cities can dissolve back into natural states as forests and wilderness. It's really not that bad when you know such places originally came from that. Let the trees and animals take them and take care of them, because they actually take care of it way better than human civilizations do.

@@uptin this comes with its own problems. Brain drain from India to the US is one of the big examples of such an occurrence. As a result India is losing a valuable portion of their population, on top of not being at replacement birth rates. Additionally, places like Europe have distinct cultures that are now being replaced by immigrant cultures. When immigration happens at such a fast rate the local culture tends to be forgotten. It’s sad to see so many countries being overtaken by immigrants it’s not really good for anyone.

32 hours

@mrs.potatohead8471 25 hours

Notice how nobody talks about the COST of children.

​@@MickeyMishraThey've a lotta money dude! 🙄 Bearing children is not even that difficult, if one has the gotten the right mindset. My dad's the sole bread-earner in our family of 3 (adding to it, my dad sends money to our village place too), and we're perfectly happy. 🙄 Moreover, my dad earns almost nothing when compared to what the Japanese do on an average, still we are perfectly alright with the same...

the homesteading mother, the stay at home mom is what helps produce a population. goes all the way back to hunter gatherer times when we had no choice but to have the men go hunt for meat, the woman stayed in some kind of shelter, albeit cave or not

pretty sure US is decades ahead of this. general population of US aren't aware of it

Let that country and many more end like Rome

That's Inhumane.

@@jayr1404 either extinction or that

​@jayr1404 agree dude that's so weird

That wouldn't happen in America because from one year they banned abortion in usa and that will increase births

Turn the schools into apartments

Seems unlikely, we get so many immigrants

Immigration is causing our water supply to dwindle. Get the Dems out of power or we will eventually collapse. Looking more like China and India every day.

Except US population is growing

How can you used to be Japanese it’s a race 😂😂😂😂

Surely you're still Japanese though🤔

You could be on the lookout for short term jobs to test out living there?

I mean they have good health care there and they p smart I feel like

Yea...... "Education"....

That’s not how life works in collective societies like those in Asia and India. But it should be.. critically thinking is good for everyone.

@@luckyjoestar7938 well i meant low fees for schools and collages

@@MrBookluckyeah like there smart when there shit drivers

I'm amazed that in that entire video, the cost of housing and living and childcare etc. wasn't even mentioned.. just immigration is the solution, which is probably the whole point of the video.

It's not economic, the poorest countries have the most children.

Our fertility rate has been plummeting the past 10 years, were definitely headed there, but instead of doing anything, our leaders will just swing the borders wide open.

So without knowing what will cause it, you take it on faith that more women will begin having children

Older generations are so funny

Its a trend in a lot of developed countries. In the past many people didnt mind working long hours to support their families. But it seems now the newer generations are about themselves and seeking more of a work life balance. Which is good for the individual but bad for society as a whole, well we will see how things turn out in couple decades.

Yes, it is becoming more common. America is kind of 2 fold. There is a high birth rate because there is a ton of people that adhere to traditions, especially in rural areas where this is feasible. But the so-called middle class in dense areas work several jobs, and the jobs is paying less and less. Todays US woke problem come from this trend. Parents overwork, and the kids get indoctrinated in full-day institutions, into believing in marxism and use their overworked/underpaid parents as reference point. There are more workers than jobs, so the salary goes down. There is 8 billion people on the planet that happily take the job for less. Japan also has this problem. Japan has no natural resources and must import everything, then manufacture, and sell for a profit. And their neighbour is china, korea and asia with their slave labour and no pay. Japan has outsourced as much as US, and suffers.

@@frodej6640 Shows history is so complex with many factors, that only God knows the outcome for each country. Thankfully He is sovereign over all. We hopefully get our 80 years in the sun to do some good for others, and move on.

Don't blame "work". People used to work a lot in the past and still managed to have children and people in many parts of the US maintain a 2.1 birth rate while working. The US has three saviors in it's demographics. 1. It's late to the fertility party. It's rate dropped over the last 100 years, not in the massive crashes of Europe and now Asia which halved in 50 and 25 or so years. It looks like the US rate is "stable" enough that it has some time to change it. 2. The "US" doesn't have a fertility issue -- parts of the US do. Rural states, specially religious areas, have maintained a 2.1 fertility rate. It's just the blue state coastal areas which have so many 0 child women. This is important for two reasons: (a) it means half the country can collapse without the taking the rest of the country down, and (b) it suggests there are social factors in play such that if adopted, the fertility rate could be 2.1 with the rest of the country. 3. The US is the top source country for immigration and probably always will be. It could (even legally) keep its overall population up simply by taking in anyone "left" over from the rest of the world wanting to escape their demographic issues. I can see the US population stalling as the coasts die out -- or move out -- and then slowly get repopulated by middle-America once they adopt whatever social/cultural/religious systems is keeping their birth rates high. Most of the rest of the world... it's probably too late.

The States is *increasing* in population by about 1-2 MILLION more people every year, though. Do you think continuing to grow the human population is the answer?

lol as soon as you move to a new place in Japan you are expected to greet your neighbors and sometimes bring gifts to them. And if you look white or black or Middle Eastern, all the neighbors will likely talk smack and gossip about you behind your back. So I really don't think Japan is an ideal place for introverts lol

@@tonymon6147 What about Indians?

looks like I need to move there too, though I was equally happy in rural Sweden.

worst place for introverts...thats why many suicide or become hikikomori they shut away from society because ppl looked down on them best place is 3rd world countries or isolated island because u dont feel depressed comparing to others because theres so many poorer ppl and they doesnt care about appearance,keeping with society or jobless ppl.

@@prakharmedhavi1915 idk about Indians but Japanese do discriminate against Vietnamese migrant workers.

The problem is our governments are owned by the same corporations, and regulate the system to screw the working class when they should be helping them.

No, the real reason is that women choose not to have children in order to have a better life.

When taxes were higher in the US this problem hadn’t arrived yet. Turns out ur wrong

It’s more about workers not having enough power, not enough unions. So people don’t earn enough to afford kids

Thanks for sharing!

dayla, Based on immigration rules of just 8 years ago, I should be able to get a permanent visa, but they keep raising the bar every 2 or 3 years, so it's impossible for me now. Japan doesn't want foreigners living here.

@@earlysda yup. I'm in the same boat.

I'd say one Day they'll go full throttle accepting people because they have no other option

@@MiaMizuno Mia, I honestly believe that Japanese as a whole would rather see their country disappear from history before they open "full throttle".

Our parents generation could afford a house on a single salary 😂

@@MrSandman_0981 yeah no joke when I was born my mom works for the state, basically getting paid barely above minimum wage at the time and my dad was a Cath Lab tech, which paid about seven dollars more than minimum wage. They had a four bedroom house with a half acre backyard in Charlotte North Carolina. I’m a private investigator who makes easily double the salary of a police officer , my wife is a banker, and we live in a two bedroom house that we own with barely a backyard. So yeah, the thought of having a kid right now. Sounds really stupid.

It's a good thing the earth is overpopulated and in the midst of a climate crisis

Cool story but US woke youth dying from fentanyl addiction and it's reality

Ive got a plan. Let's meet up, fuck, and have babies!

True! I noticed this too! US dollar is stronger to the yen

@@wo2530 then why it's gdp ppp is decreasing

@@wo2530 wo, please learn something true about economics soon.

Both of my parents born in Japan and moved out of the country in their 20s during 1950s. However, we still visit Japan regularly for relatives. For the last 40 yrs, I notice a lot of change. Last time, I visited my childhood playground, I couldn't believe how it became left rotten from years of unused. One thing uptin hasn't mentioned in the video and I think it's the elephant in the room, Japan is the largest US debts holder in the world by a big margin. With a shrinking fast population, Japan cannot afford to keep printing & buying US debts to maintain the false perception of yen strength. Something it's going to snap.

@@DonJuanDM Don, you've got it backwards. Japan owns US debt, so is getting income from the interest on that debt. You are correct about things for kids in Japan going bad.

Lol

They take things for granted. 🤦‍♂️

We are interested in learning crafts but we can’t afford it and we won’t get paid the same for our worth as your generation did. Be honest with yourself and your surroundings.

@@solaris5922 There are still plenty of trade schools in Japan that are free for those who can’t afford it. My eldest son went to Kawagoe Kogyou where he specialized in auto mechanics. Upon graduation he and his friend rented a car lot near the port in Kobe. They buy cars at auction In numbers, do the required maintenance on them, then ship them overseas for profit. At 22 my son makes 3 times what I do and he never went to university, he learned a valuable trade when others warned him the car trade is risky. It takes vision and commitment to succeed in life. Mewling about what others made or make does no one any good.

@@solaris5922we’ll just sit in your moms basement and wait for the end

Well, becoming a shoe maker isn't really a problem, but it will not pay your bills, and it could be quite detrimental for you to get your own family because the job is viewed as unstable. No loans, no nothing.

Japan won't go extinct.

It's overpopulation. No extinction unless putin or USA/Nazis bombs the fuck out of everyone

LOL!! Lots of people making kids everywhere I go. STOP BELIEVING WHAT YOU SEE HERE AND ON TV. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️I live in Japan by the way.

@@gn7867 yea the population is growing more daily

if things will br never change,you will see the last japanese in 3000A.D． is that how you call soon to be extinct ?

Immigration would make the situation in Japan worse given their population.

Australia the European country 😊😊😊😅😅😅

Good idea interviewing moms-- key people. What would induce them to have children.

and there it is. The problem is always conservatism. Even when feminism is the reason women are deciding not to have children and society is collapsing; theirs still something to blame conservatives for. Lol

So you are basically poor!

It's the towns that are shrinking. Younger people are moving to larger cities for work in addition to these age group are not having babies or delaying having a family.

It is very easy, just take the bus/train to outside of those big cities. I have done that. Not specifically to see abandoned stuff, but to see castles and other tourist worthy stuff. It is impossible to ignore when you travel around that there is insane amount of elderly, and see shops that are closed in large numbers. There is a shopping street in Nagoya that is like @9.55, and that is a big city. All of the examples in the video are there in plain sight if you step out a tiny bit.

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Its true that populations decrease over time bu this is the first time in history there are more old people than young people which will eventually lead to a societal collapse when to few work and the government cant afford base services. Your hypothesis about that the population may stabalise and grow again may be true but a societal collapse would still be catastrophic for standards of living. Wouldnt it be better to try and prevent such a thing?

Unless something changes drastically about how economies function, the population decline cripples economies. Japan’s economy is smaller than it was in 1995. The economy of the US has tripled. I’m very glad my money wasn’t invested in Japan over the last 35 years, because I like making money. It hurts infrastructure and technological advancement too. When nobody wants to invest in companies because companies are shrinking because population is shrinking, companies have trouble funding new projects. Japan is set to spend half its time in recession over the next twenty years too. Beyond that, who knows? A key point hidden in what I said is that even in the optimistic case of tons of jobs being automated and japan not needing as many workers, simply not having as many consumers causes issues.

Except Singapore.

But the problem is once the population starts dropping rapidly, it doesn't magically stop when the ideal population is reached, because now the few kids born today will grow up with the same mindset that they don't need marriage of kids, so the population will continue to halve each successive generation

Yes, the population problem will only cause Japan economy to shrink and young people will have to work longer to support older people. With the state of Japan economy, at most Japan will just turn into a poor nation or bankrupt but It's not like they will just disappear. And I believe that people will find ways to revitalize their own country. And this is also a chance for other countries to start building their own economy and replace the current large economy like Japan. Investors and large companies can relocate from Japan and choose countries that have a better workforce.

seriously you think it's just people decreasing!! ... now one third of Japan's population are 65 years or older, ... Imagine 30 or 40 years later, It's going to be catastrophic ... who will support them?!! "Financially", who will pay taxes!!

@@wamnichoits so gross that you think its fine to implant into a childs mind that they HAVE to be married in the future. nobody has to be married, nobody has to have children. please stop forcing these things on people especially the children

Japanese people pay more for newer homes, and older ones tend to be cheaper, in fact you can buy older style homes outside of the major cities for as little as $15,000 USD, (before state, city and county taxes, and assessments, and land appeasements) and the main reason is, the structure is more than 30 years old, which scares a lot of Japanese people because it's not up to date on the earthquake regulations, and that's the major reason why when buildings age they become less valued as a new build. Granted it's different in Larger cities, but Aging apartment buildings tend to be slightly cheaper than newer buildings, as newer buildings tend to command the highest prices for them. It's also why the city of Kyoto is demolishing traditional Machyia (town homes) as fast as they can, as they are usually 90% wood, (huge fire risks during an earthquake) and most are not built on foundations.

Housing is already cheap in Japan. Move on to another hypothesis

Its crazy to think that the japanese governments biggest form of recourse is to give women more money. They been doing that and it does not work. I don't know why they would not try the opposite of that? They already have a working model of large GDP growth they would just have to turn the clock back about 40 years when women stayed home and had babies instead of worked.. Teh answer is easy the government is just insane.

Not even birthrate but japan immigrants that r fleeing and going to other countries

What do you think of measures like banning contraception/abortion, changing divorce laws, excluding women from universities ? Do Japanese people ever mention these things as possible solutions or is it too controversial ?

@@kairos_fluent In Japan, there doesn't seem to be as vigorous a debate on issues like banning contraception/abortion as in the United States. These matters are considered as separate from the population problem and are viewed as social issues with historical context. Concerning divorce laws, the current situation largely grants custody to women only, which seems to persist in line with Japan's traditional lifestyle, contradicting the modern concept of equal burden-sharing. Additionally, there have been controversies in the past regarding the exclusion of women from certain university programs, such as the preferential treatment of male students in medical schools.Regarding the Japanese government's specialized agencies for women's careers, criticism arose when these institutions were predominantly composed of men, drawing nationwide attention. However, it is not so common for these issues to be seen as the primary focus when discussing the population problem in Japan. Presently, for many Japanese, the central topics in the debate over the declining birthrate revolve around the low income of young people, high taxation, and a sense of distrust towards the government's efforts to combat the declining birthrate. For instance, initiatives like inviting children to attend J-League soccer matches as part of the population measures were harshly criticized as wasteful spending of taxpayers' money. Moreover, the lack of transparency in the budget allocation for this initiative and other similar uncertain expenditures have also been brought into question.

@@tom-WTF That's very interesting. Would the Japanese people protest at restricting or abolishing women's rights in order to correct the population decline ? Basically what do you think the reaction of Japanese society would be if this went ahead ?

Watch the video. I address why it’s actually a bad thing

Why would I invest in companies that are shrinking? And so it’s hard to fund any needed projects in Japan.

For most, nothing seems to matter anymore except economic values and worship of technology. Quality of life -- huh? What's that? It sure makes things simple. More is better. Get on with breeding and import as many people as possible, even if they're third worlders who (far from being net assets) have to be supported by the indigenous population.

Sounds cool, do you have any link to this Sakura Quest to watch please? 🙏

@@titiwa5768 i think it is on Funimation , unfortunately KZfaq deletes comments with links, so i would google it or check on Funimation or Crunchyroll, it is a good show

Don't go there. Stay in your country and try to reduce the population instead. Let it stay homogeneous they don't need your pissful religion

Go for it!

saif, please come to Japan to find out how it really is. While this video had some truthful statements, there were some that were not.

I think the government is not adapting and innovating fast enough. But I also see why it’s afraid of diluting it’s culture

They allows foreigners to live there, but their Visa rules are very stricts. Many are giving up

@@titiwa5768 You help my point. Japan needs to make it more accessible for foreigners to live there.

@@boneyn3661 no they need to reduce the work load on their own people and let them have their own lives, we need more japanese people in japan not outsiders lol

In 50 years it could be Brave New World anyway (test tube babies raised by the government).

Figuring out the incentive isn't hard. You take how much money they'd make in a career with no kids, subtract how much they'd make with kids, and you have an appropriately-sized incentive. The amount of incentive needed to move the needle on the fertility rate is going to be eye-watering. The mistake governments keep making is assuming that women desperately want kids due to female instinct or hormones or whatever and just need a teensy-tiny little bit of help make ends neat.

Thanks so much

even Taiwan is around 20m. it's the size of Vancouver Island, contrast to 800k population.

Not if people continue to not have children in Japan. The US also has a declining birth rat. But the population doesn’t feel it because we have a constant stream of immigrants.

He's just an alarmist for content views.

Look up the term "population collapse"

Unless they don't get invaded by China or Russia

Japanese War crimes on Chinese and Koreans are not forgotten yet

But world class professors may not prefer to live in small and middle cities.

@@mahendharthatikonda6050 well i think as long they can provide excellent facilities home for families etc that can be considered. More nature, less stress cities, low commute etc

​@@mahendharthatikonda6050well it's Japan. Even tier 2 cities are good enough for living extremely comfortable life.

Yes, alex, move many govt. offices out of Tokyo. Everything in Japan is based in one city, which is very dangerous.

@@earlysdayeah in a war if you destroy Tokyo Japan is basically finished.

This is what i thought it not just long work hours but japan have bad child and mother hood care

OP does not work alone. He has cameramen and handlers who arrange and prepare his interviews.