Currently living and working in Japan, I can tell you the REAL reason. Japanese work culture. It's the base of the vast majority of problems in this country. People don't see a point in sex or getting married because they spend the majority of each day at work. It is normal to work 10-12+ hours a day followed by work parties or other work related events. The whole "gambare" attitude here is killing the country.

Best pick up line : "ayyy girl ? You interested in the raising of our country population ?"

Japanese government:lets make everybody work to death, without any chance of creating a family "Population decreases" Japanese government: :0

Imperial japan: BANZAI!!!! Modern japan: SENPAI!!!!!

It's because they created Anime, now they can't get a real girlfriend and now they're stuck with their waifu.

It seems there's a lot of stigma attached to living with you parents in the west. In asian countries its fairly normal. In Asian countries if you are living with your parents it doesn't mean that you don't have a job or aren't successful its just that children take care of their parents at the old age rather that letting them live alone.

Corporate slavery is to blame.

A 100 year later: Rip japan we will all miss you your anime are the best

The real reason is super long work hours, long commutes, high stress jobs, some of the highest suicide rate and depression rates in the world and a traditional idea of the mother giving up her career for children. Companies will also often not hire mothers. No one likes those answer though.

Man there sure are a lot of white people in this video about Japan

japanese people's sperm and egg cell are becoming low/unhealthy because of overwork. people may not know but they work 10-15hours a day.

Japan: "Our men are afraid of our women and our women are afraid of our men." America: "Why can't I hold all these single mothers?"

At this rate robots don't even need to takeover they just need to wait. Edit: Had no clue that this blew up

Don’t let this video distract you from the fact that Mr. Krabs sold Spongebob’s soul for 62 cents

this is what happen when workers right is almost non-existent causing the worker to suffer stress, depression. suicidal and despair while the government expect them to function perfectly like robot without rest, asking to marry so and so without addressing the source of the problem "TIME". how do the people raise a family when they coming home at 9 to 10 pm and goes to work at 6 to 7 am, they are literally working themselves to death, does the government think the people does not have feeling.

Fun fact: Tokyo has a bigger population than all of Canada.

You forgot that in Japan a lot Japanese are working alot of hours each day and there's other works two job's just to cover payments and life goals. That's why many are stressed out when coming out from work. Also some can't make it in their home and just get a hotel to sleep till they go back up and continue working. It's the real reason why population growth is decreasing and last not forget the suicide rate there as well.

Japan took the kamikaze to a whole new level

almost 24 yo virgin , i think i'm becoming japanese or wizard if this continues.

Germany: Oh no, my population is shrinking! :( Japan: Hold my beer!

Meanwhile in America, kids are getting pregnant as teens Edit: Wow, I completely forgot I wrote this comment. I’m saying this because as an American myself, I’ve seen many teenage pregnancies. I’m aware that unfortunately, it’s also common in other countries but teenage pregnancy rates are going down in many of those countries and I’m glad to hear that.

The cost of living is to high, even in the USA. One person with a full time job used to be able to support a family. Now a couple both with full time jobs is still barely getting by, so who has money and time to good parents?

it's not that deep. people just don't want children.

It's an irony that how most of the countries are suffering with increasing population and japan, on the other hand, is suffering with population decrease.....

It has to be exhausting for the younger generation of Japan to work that hard, live in clogged cities and adhere to strict social structures in place for centuries.

Japan is so focused on having a great career at a young age that the stress starts at a young age. When they are kids, you are sent to various after school programs and study really hard to get into college. Once you are in college, you have to focus on having a great career. The culture isn't relaxed at all. Korea is currently decreasing their population too. I am currently working in Korea and these poor children do nothing but school and study all week long. No mini vacations to hike or weekend trips to a nearby city or quick playground play date. It's quite sad. To be the top in education comes with a price. Coming from America, I guess it is worth not being number one in education if it means kids can be kids.

I don’t want to marry or be in a romantic relationship either. I have my own problems and I really don’t want someone else’s on top of mine. And I definitely don’t want to have kids. Screw that. I want to be alone, so I don’t blame others for wanting to be alone as well. To me it seems sensible.

Japan's low birth rate is a consequence of Japan's economic history. Japan had positive population growth during the economic boom years from about 1950 to 1990, when their economy was powered by exports of consumer goods. They were the world's workshop in a similar manner to Britain in the 19th Century. Starting in the 1990s, the rest of Asia started copying Japan's example, and Japan lost increasing amounts of its export markets to China and other low-cost newly industrializing competitors in Asia. Japan tries to stay ahead of the pack in technology and quality, but that's an expensive investment which they will lose anyway as China and the others catch up. Japan is one of the most expensive countries to live in, so Japanese factories and workers simply can't afford to compete with other Asian factories and workers in terms of costs and wages. So Japan has basically fallen into permanent recession. They tried to stimulate the economy with heavy deficit spending, but that has failed miserably, and it has only ruined Japan's once-perfect financial record with a huge national debt. The result of all that is economic death for Japanese employers and workers. Businesses failing, factories moving to China, remaining factories downsizing and automating. Workers being forced to take low-skilled, low-paying, part-time, temporary jobs, far below their education level. This is happening despite today's young generation being the most educated generation ever. Unemployed and underemployed young Japanese people by the millions are being forced to delay marriage and stay at home with their parents for years after they finish school. It gives them the opportunity to experiment with Bohemian lifestyles like young Westerners do, but if they had a choice, most young Japanese would rather have the same career opportunities their parents had. How are they supposed to maintain a replacement birth rate when they can't even support themselves? Anyone who wants young Japanese people to get married and reproduce only needs to start a business in Japan, hire lots of young people, and pay them a decent wage. Until that happens, a declining population is what Japan needs, and to oppose it would only make things worse. A smaller Japanese population is better than a poor Japan.

Long working hours , high cost of living . Go home tired sleep . I heard many ppl sleep in some lan cafe every night and go to work in the morning . And its cheaper than renting an apartment to live in . People are seeking romance/lust but not love and marriage itself. Just the thought of supporting ur wife and child gets ur mind crazy . Cause after you got ur family to support you have not much left to spend on ur hobby on things you wants to enjoy. Its a monotonous lifestyle until ur children are old enough to support you . By that time you're too old to do the things you always wanted to do. I can imagine why they feel more happy being single . They want to be happy more than anything

They also don't want to have any children because school is very expensive there.

1. it's expensive 2. kids are painful 3. it's expensive 4. we have enough people

Having no family, less financial problem

my bf is full japanese and we started dating in college and he is from tokyo and he said that people in cities are way more into getting a education and working only on jobs and that people in the countryside are WAY more into having a family. he lives in tokyo but his older brother who is 27 lives in the countryside about 8 hours away and his brother got married at 18 and already has 3 children, i feel its just the way society is over there and why the suicide rate is so high because people in cities feel as if they fail at work they have no point in living

All valid points, but you forgot the most important one. Young adults in Japan are pressured to work themselves to death. Which means they have little to no time for social activities other than with colleagues or family. Abenomics also failed spectacularly, so thats another thing making people reluctant to get married. Thanks to the current state of politics, Marriage = Much more expensive than being single. Japanese culture is still very patriarchal, and as a result women there are pretty squemish about tying the knot. (Because the wife is expected to raise children.)

My country (Italy) also has a decreasing population, it's depressing to see the ratio of old vs young people around, schools being shut down due to insufficient scholars, dying cities, etc. A country with no youth is practically dead and holds no hope. Hopefully future generations or other countries will learn from this and prioritise the necessary birth rate

Very informative! One small correction. When you refer to birth rate, what you really should call it is Total Fertility Rate, which is the average number of children a woman will bear in her fertile lifetime, whereas birth rate is generally the number of children born per 1000 inhabitants during 1 year

You forgot the high suicide rates. Not sure if it's a major factor towards the decreasing population, but they do have very high suicide rates I think!! Pls tell me if I'm wrong

It's simple. The destruction of family values, fragility of the economy, culture of overworking, and the culture of focusing on careers over family is what is destroying the fertility rate in every "modern" country. Anything else is a symptom.

Me : *single. Also Me : NOTHING TO DO HERE.. JAPAN HERE I COME!

What about the high rent prices in the developed world caused by over-regulation? What about social media making it so that women wait for the perfect person rather than having relationships.

3 reasons 1:Kids are overrated 2:Hentai 3:Insane work schedules , very little free leisure time & this absurd culture to drink with co workers is almost mandatory or expect to be judged.

No one in Japan considers family to be first and most valuable thing. If you ask a Japanese he will definitely say work is most important. Their mindsets are stuck in post war times where murica nuked them and they had no choice to rebuild the country by working extra hard. If you work from 8 till 22 you don't have time for family at all. Try riding a 22:00 train in Japan and look at those half-dead office zombies in business suits. Bet you won't be able to see a scene like this in any country. Average salary in Japan is around $2000 now usually with 30 hours of overwork per month already included in this salary, meaning if you don't do these 30 hours overwork you would get even less. Which is ridiculous since you can just go and do baito and get $1500 a month much easier without overworking like a mule. Some do overwork because they want extra money (sometimes overwork isn't even paid at all, google "black company"). Sometimes people overwork simply because leaving earlier than your boss is considered very rude and is a sure way to make everyone in the company hate you fast. And that boss will be sitting there until last train because he has an angry wife at home he doesn't wanna see. I'm not even starting about how japan is all about your image and reputation. No one cares what you can do and what person you are. Everyone cares only about how low can you bow and how hard can you kick your boss' ass by sitting there being unproductive while pretending to be working. Yay for totally not-asinine Japanese work culture. Half of Japan's problems would be easily solved if Japanese didn't apply their Bushido mentality to modern lifestyle. But it will never happen since children are brainwashed by schools since young age into these "replaceable gears of the society, where you have to suppress your emotions and never voice your opinion, while enduring all the shit flying towards you". The amount of pressure from society is hard to explain if you never been to an asian country before. And you wonder why the suicide rate is so high... Japan is awesome if you a short term visitor. But if you stay and live here you will start seeing this fucked up society from inside and will start questioning why would anyone wanna live in this depression-land to begin with. It's especially mind boggling to me when americans move to japan. The salary in usa is so much higher. You can find a good job where you and your skills will be valuable and won't be treated like a worthless drone. You won't be living in a room/house the size of a wardrobe and you will have all the time with your family. Your children won't be bullied and treated like dirty peasant half-bloods. And you won't have to deal with general animosity by the locals to you as an alien. Of course, on the positive side you get to live in a very safe country, eat delicious food and travel to beautiful places, but the price you have to pay for this isn't worth it. Ask native English speakers who work as teachers here in Japan for example what shit they have to go through on daily basis. Even Japanese people themselves who happen to go live abroad tend to never come back to their previous prison-like life in Japan..

That Wix ad at the end was hilariously well timed.

Eastern Europe: **nervous laughter**

What about the fact that many Japanese people work 16-20 hour shifts, 6-7 days a week? A lot of them literally don't have the time for a relationship or a family. If they don't work these ridiculous shifts, they get viewed as lazy or unproductive and may get shunned from society. Also the country has a high suicide rate due to high societal pressure, having to get the best education and job possible and work and much as possible or risk becoming an outcast.

_Is anime to blame?_

Wow, I wish my country France had that many people. It's so spaced here.

I’m not having children because it’s hard enough to get ahead without the added pressure of raising children. Also everyday we are reminded that the planet 🌍 is heating up, jobs are be automated and housing becoming unaffordable. Perhaps it’s kinda not to have children

It was Thanos. That's it

With a divorce rate hovering around 50% here in the US, I could understand why many choose to stay single. If marriage was a business decision, it would be a horrible one considering those odds. IMO, being single has better benefits than being married. Less stress being the biggest benefit of them all.

Single people: 61% of *unmarried* men *REALLY, UNMARRIED, SINGLE*

I just can't stop listening to 3:07 repeatedly.

All the world: people feel bad for being 20 and virgin Japan: *Normal to see a 30 years old virgin and kissing an anime pillow* Edit: it's a joke pls don't get triggered like some of the guy's that responsed to me

"sex robots" *_exuse me what about anime?_*

61% Men 49% Women add that up

Everyone : Japan's birth rate is extremely low. They have to accept immigrants ASAP. S.Korea : Am I a joke to you?

The irony of having the biggest porn industry but no one is mating in real life 😂😂😂

Cause of death: *hentai*

Solution: Give young people they own home and they will have family.

Japan Population 2010: 128 million 2017: 127 million 2020: 126 million 2070: 20 million

*curb your enthusiasm plays* 7.0 earthquake

I only came to read the anime jokes and I was not disappointed.

And We here in India having baby every six seconds what's this global imbalance

Question for commentors: did that ad transition at the end feel tacky or tone deaf?

We have the same problem here in Germany

Better than overpopulation

One of the sadder commercials for "wix" that I've seen lately

So many have chosen money and materials over families. Very sad.

Low IQ make high birth rate. And High IQ make low birth rate

Ive never related more to japanese dudes than now.

Marriage is over rated. Kids also over rated. Freedom is not over rated.

2021 Japan decrease by 644,000

I'll move to Japan and solve their birthrate problem

Same with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia. And those countries have just a few million residents, not 127 million like Japan.

Japan Irl:no flirt Anime:sees crush *goes on a rampage*

Marriage is overrated and kids are annoying.

Every country will have low birth rates soon. This is the generation where people spends more time in the internet than real life. This video alone costs me 7 minutes of my life and i’m not gonna stop after this video.

Not Want To Get Married Thats not a Problem These Are Smart People Being Smart.

Japan has 130 million people, russia has 140 million... for such a little country japan is FULL of people

dating sites don't really lead to marriage very often, most people on those are looking for hookups rather than a serious relationship

There is lots of comments of people saying "a decreasing population is not a problem, because the world is having too many babies anyway". Well, let me explain something. Population growth is happening in POOR countries, not developed countries. That's where our future population is going to explode from, and this is terrible because these countries already have a lack food and water. Anyway, we need POOR countries to stop having so many babies, and rich countries to start having a few more babies to balance everything out. Japan needs to stay stable, not shrink. Africa and India need to slow down and stabilize. Europe needs to have more babies to stabailize, etc Edit: THANKYOU for 17 likes!! 😭😀 I don't even have this many followers on Instagram!! 😅(I'm exaggerating, kinda joking about people freaking out when they get lots of likes on a comment)

I'm overqualified must be the best response to that question I've ever seen or heard.

I’ve stayed single for the rest of my life, There’s no one wanting to date me legitimately, I’ve suffered to much heart broke.

This transition to advertisement. This was good.

Where is Thanos when you need him

Perhaps removing the censored things could help? So that their teens would get an idea of what it'd look like. lmao

Every country, or culture rather, has underlying problems it refuses to address. It sees them as the foundation of identity, and attempts to put bandaids on the symptoms rather than tackle the deeper change necessary

In Japan, abortion is legal. Taxes increases when you have another child. It's just add up to why they dont want children.

When your country is responsible for 40% of porn categories and the leaders are wondering why there’s a birth decline

*"My Waifu is everything!"* - no children in a Nutshell

Having no child is the best thing a couple can do ....

Really! That’s how you transition to your sponsor? I lolled so hard!

Immigration is not the solution for low birthrates

Japan isn't allowed to die out, we need Anime.

"Why are you single? You're attractive, intelligent, and creative." "I'm overqualified." HA!!! I just might have to steal that one 😂

5:00 >61% of men, 49% of women are single *Bruh*

Its all about money. No money no honey.

Many developed nations have a problem where people are over worked and underpaid. Having a Family requires extra time and money. So long as people are over worked and underpaid, population growth will suffer. Japan's culture seems to exasperate this problem even more than other cultures, but this is happening in more than just Japan. TLDR: COL too high, Wages too low. cant afford a family, whatyaknow.

We need the Freaking you Ending on Golden Wind

_Are you one of these men?_ Man what a segway into that ad spot, imagine telling someone to make a website about being a hikikomori