As serious as that population collapse is, the Koreans are doing it even quicker.

I live in Japan. This is the cause of a declining economy. Its a vicious cycle. Culture too.

90000 people older than 100 years is an astonishing fact!

Japan is not alone. All developed countries and east Asian countries have below-replacement fertility, and in most of them it is declining further. When careers are emphasized, and to get one, a person must spend their youth at university, children don't happen.

When you have a culture that is more focused on careers and work, instead of people and families, less people will marry, and have children. Japan and other Asian countries are reaping what they've sown.

You touched on the cost but you missed the number one reason that is semi hidden. Employment instability. Japanese people especially men used to start work in their early 20s and be pretty much guaranteed to work at the same company for 50 years with steadily increasing wages. Many young people now work at the same companies but as contractors at a much lower salary and without job security. They never have enough money or stability to start a family.

Life is not only about working...

Modern societies are all going this way. Maybe we're valuing the wrong things?

The problem is worse than simply lower fertility rates. Childbirth is also being delayed. Having children at 38 rather than at 18 means that not only is the next generation smaller, it is effectively skipping generations.

China’s population started to decrease by 800k in 2022, and a whopping 2 million in 2023, all the while China’s GDP/Capita is still only 10k+, as opposed to to Japan’s 52k. I think China is in a way deeper crisis than Japan; they got old before they got rich.

I feel bad for the disappearing villages. There is so much culture lost to time...

In addition to promoting people living in villages, the government should provide tax breaks to businesses that allow employees to work remotely. That way, people can live in underpopulated villages and work from home!

So, I'm progressing through JLPT certs, but here in the US I can work a flat 40 hours a week in engineering and go home. If I move to Japan even at a salary match, I feel that I can expect to work 60 hours or more for no gain. I can use Japanese here to benefit my career and company. Japan is really cool with a beautiful language, a rich history and amazing sights to see, but I struggle to realize even with the mindset of adapting to Japanese culture and not bringing my own with expecations for them to change for me, the draw beyond novelty of immigrating my skilled labor with my wife.

I married a lovely Japanese woman 24 years ago. We have three children together. If the Government of Japan is listening...I did my part in trying to help with your population issues. The pleasure was all mine*)

This sounds scary for Japan. Such a paradox with the country’s high life expectancy.

Japan's population issues seem almost similar to China's. 25 years without a child being born in a village is wild though.

Money alone will not help much. Make work life balance a priority so that patents spend time at home with family and basic necessities more affordable and easily accessible. People will only procreate if they have leisure time and money.

The global population was 1 billion in 1804. The population exploded to over 8 billion. That was extremely concerning, on which we didn’t talk. The explosion of the population is the major reason for global warming, ocean acidification, disappearing forests, pollution of the entire earth and extinctions of numerous species. “Collapse” is a vocabulary of fear mongers. When the population decline slowly till 2100, we can manage the transition. We have lots of technologies to manage it. And it is in our hand, to do it in a socially acceptable and human way. The last years since pandemic made us clear, that the majority isn’t immune against deception, manipulation and brainwashing. It made us clear, that our greed, laziness and negligence is the real threat. The USD is “collapsing” ( fear monger alarm :-) right now. And it gives us the chance to reflect on our own thoughts and improve our future.

Having spent a fair amount of time in Japan, I would add that there are some problematic cultural dimensions as well. Far fewer Japanese are even getting into relationships. Even if the government gave you 80k for each baby you have, you can't make babies if you're not having sex.

There's more adult diapers sold in Japan than kids diapers.

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They are not alone. Italy is disappearing, China did it to themselves intentionally, and Russia is killing off all of its young men. The world is changing, all over. Same problem, different routes taken, same result.

Amazing how the Middle East where people die in every way possible but suicide is nowhere near this situation, don't you find it interesting that Iraq which suffered from war isn't suffering from population decline while the safest countries in the world are having a hard time convincing their people to carry on living?

How can they not disappear? Women can't work when they have children, and the men work all hours and are never home. What do they expect?

As someone that gave birth in Japan, it’s not enough. Funnily enough, currently I had to take a long break from work because I had to move neighborhoods, meaning I need to find another nursery. But there aren’t enough nurseries available, and it takes so much time and effort to get in one. Imagine you can only apply latest by a month before admission, and there is a 22 people waiting list 🤯 People only use bicycles and trains so if there is no nursery in the vicinity, I would have to go more than 5km by bike with a child, then go bak the other direction just to get to the train station?? So basically I’ve been waiting for months to get into a nearby school and at this rate my child cant get into school until the new school year in April. To put into perspective, I live in Osaka. There should be more nurseries available. And my company is making me write a list of reasons, coupled with documentation from the city hall on why my kid can’t get into school cuz I’m not allowed to take long breaks. I mean I’m not even getting paid so why is it a problem. Crazy thing is my job is remote workable but thy prefer me to the office. Now I have no salary and trying to raise a kid with hardly any help from the government. All I got was around 120 USD a month but that isn’t even enough to cover buying diapers and milk a month. Rather than feeding us this meager amount of money, create more situations where women can live a healthy lifestyle juggling work and having kids. And companies should have more empathy on mothers and stop penalizing them for not being men that can leave all home issues to their wives

Remembering the Australia model. This is just crazy! could a whole country seize to exist because everyone don’t wanna have kids?

Developed countries around the world need to get serious about tackling this problem before it's too late. They need to offer incentives large enough to where being a stay at home mom with 5 kids is a viable career option. I know that sounds weird. But that's the only way to save us from total collapse across the globe. People go where the money is nowadays.

Maybe I need to move to Japan.

Unfortunately, Japan has a very ethnocentric culture -- foreigners encounter strong discrimination. You are very much a second-class citizen as a foreigner in Japan. As for the Japanese government policies, they simply won't work. The gap between the current birth rate (about 1.2) to the replacement rate (2.1) is simply too great. Japan's policy changes are just tinkering around the edges of the problem.

Number of births in Japan was about 726 tsd in 2023 but numer of deaths is above 1,5 mln. So about 800 tsd less people a year. In a decade Japan will shrink its popualtion about 8 mln. Median age in Japan is 49,1 years,

Japan is doomed, and it has no one to blame but itself. You can't just throw money at the problem, hoping it will go away, especially when the older generation, especially the leaders, still run it the old way: 1) group first individual not at all, 2) Seniority over creativity, 3) Work over family, 3) Low wages, 4) discrimination against women and foreigners, etc. Those responsible should Seppuku to save the country.

Nah, the people don't really emphasize on career either as most people don't even have career planning/strategy Their focus is simply scattered No life plan No career plan and it's just getting worse with social media

No problem, Japan already has literally the final solution for aging population problem. That's called 'ubasute-yama' or oldies dumping yards, which has been part of Japan's history for thousands of years.

When they make adoption hard and almost illegal then this bound to happens . 🤡💩🤢🙄😤😮‍💨🤨

This was seen as the perfect society. Anyone coming into Japan is not Japanese. Xenophobia or racism. Whose fault is it and who cares?

So these are much concern for economy not for People... How sad 😢...

Their lack of work life balance might hv something to do

There are plenty people in undeveloped countries who are able to take up the labour shortfall

People choosing to go 'childfree' is a GOOD thing. Only ones panicking over shrinking populations are the rich (billionaires)

Good narration.

When I was living in Japan, Japanese women told me that they don’t want to become the caretakers of their husband’s elderly parents as is the tradition in Japan for centuries. The Western Women I know who married Japanese guys say that he was so sweet and nice when they were dating but he then turned into a totalitarian dictator once they were married. Young Japanese Women want to have fun. They want to travel, have their own interests. And it’s extremely difficult for Japanese kids who are under pressure cooker type conditions to excel academically. They are under far too much stress. Young people don’t want to have kids and put them through all of that. A father and son both committed suicide together when I was there because the son didn’t get accepted to the university they’d chosen.

Ask the japanese people in usa, australia, and brazil to move back

What is scary is existence that is filled with suffering and not extinction

How is this not a good thing for the planet and the environment in the long run?

Sorry guys it's worse then that. Humanity has 18 days before the great reset. The world population peak was in 2018 at 9.176b ppl. Now we at 1750million world wide with 10million ppl dying a day since COVID began. Every country world wide Japan, China India all has drop to extinction lvls when then then the world with most populated countries including south and central America. All you have to do is open your eyes and see there ain't as much ppl in your home town as there used to be

Not collapsing, it is scaling down to their current economic size.

The stupid part is English speaking clever people would say "all you have to do is import a bunch of people who aren't like you, don't like you, and don't want to be like you." You know, because Japan would still be Japan if the Japanese were replaced by, well, anybody. It would not be so bad if old people had the ability to pick up and carry stuff. And to think. I'm on the cusp of old, and I am shocked at how many 55+ people just decide to stop thinking. Is that the case in Japan, too? And Japanese government forces retirement? Did I hear that right?

Very interesting! Paying citizens when they have children is a fascinating concept. Has this been tried anywhere else in the world? Did it work?

It sounds as if Japan is moving in the right direction to help their population problems. Once people start moving to smaller towns and working online they will be together more to let nature take its course. Maybe the other countries with this problems should do the same. None of these countries be ignoring their orphan children. Maybe the seniors can be paid to adopt these childrens and give them a home in a small town in the country.

Good, will be the best thing for the planet and everyone…. People will start to breed again when the population drops and life becomes more pleasant. Less people, less competition, people will become more tolerable, so people will socialise more and therefore breed more. The population boom in the past 200 years was extreme, this is just a natural correction.the centuries before the boom population growth was glacial.

Japan is overpopulated as is many parts of the world. It is not a crisis - it is a correction.

Either labor gets to be in such short supply that there's premium on wages and people can afford kids, or they die out. Immigration is just a stop gap.

I think many people don't realize how exponential decrease works. If the current trend continues (that is not sure) , Japan will reach the density of population of a country like Spain (that is currently in its historical high) after THREE generations (aprox a century). Hardly a short-term catastrophe. I often see too how many people don't realize that the demographic explosion in 20th century was very dramatic. People are calling the rebound back to middle 20th century levels a tragedy. As far as we know, what is currently happening in developed countries is not dramatically dangerous and looks as a come back to levels of decades ago. This repeated catastrophic message reminds me about certain catastrophic predictions about the covid. Those predictions were unbelievably inaccurate and caused damaging knee-jerk reactions. Let's see how population numbers would evolve in a mathematical way, not giving random figures. Then, let's compare with the population of decades ago. Yes, the population gets older on average when birth rate decreases, but it doesn't get older and older, it reaches an equilibrium. Let's not forget we now have an enormous advantage in technological advanced over mid or early 20th century. There is no problem of maintenance with the current numerical trends of population decrease, for generations.

"Functioning" means different things to different people. When workers are harder to get, employee salaries and benefits increase. The thing that causes governments trouble is the fact there are fewer young people paying taxes, part of which supports "old folks". This decline has been going on for years. Women became more liberated and got tired of sitting at home evenings while the hubby was "out with the boys".

Pay one person female or male to be full time parent. A small amount extra for extra kids. Otherwise, only those already going to have kids by choice will have the benefit. Government saying I'll give you $100 to go buy a car and the rest is up to you. Not a good deal!

It was 40 years said that the number of persons will end life on earth. Now the number gets down - again wrong? Not for our planet.

It is the precursor of Urban modern society. The major key factor is house is getting more expensive and size decrease so it is too crampy to start family. This is the mismangement of most country by builidng smaller and smaller house. In affluent societies, the cost of raising children is too extorbitant.

They need to make dramatic changes. Work culture, social culture, everything. I hope they fix it and have pure Japanese

It's sad, but I hope it will make my dream of living my life there more likely 😅

Population decline is not a problem, in fact it is a good thing. The problem is managing that decline.

Richer people less kids.

Maybe it is not so bad to have a declining population... adapt to fewer people.

There are still a lot of Japanese people. Swedes in the mean time only 6-7 millions and declining fast.

7:01 this is the best and goodnews for people want working in japan expecially young people from southeast asia like malaysia thaialdn vietnam philipines and indonesia also have even the basic japanese language that need to help and increase they ability to help japan economy for two country benefit

Good, maybe this will force people to realize there’s more to life than work

The chinese did it to themselves with that one child policy.

How is it collapse if it will be like in the 1960s? I mean in the UK that'd be great as houses will be cheaper since the corrupt system won't allow new social housing

5:00 yes you can.

Debunk ! the People that die are old people and that means less pensions to pay and that's good for the economy ! As for population with all the people that want to come for South East Asian and Europe , etc if japan allow them all in that will mean more that 10 million people !

AI will take some jobs anywheres.

Whats going to happen to the anime industry 😢

Speaking for myself, the two women I was most interested in, who I met almost thirty years ago, weren't people I wanted sex with. That's not to say I wouldn't have done it if the occasion arose, but the interest was not centered around either of them physically at all. I did not find them appealing physically, or unappealing, just neutral. However, the spirit or mind that occupied them interested me for a long time.

China has also passed peak population and it will be entering a fast population decline soon down to 600 million this will mean it will decline as an industrial powerhouse because an aging population means fewer people will be able to do the jobs. Both China and Japan have no immigrants coming to replace the population and there is no indication that policy will change.

As a medical doctor I wonder why using negative words "collapse, scaring, worrying"? It seems you did not take into account a huge factor : progress such as in medicine and life extension, transhumanism and people living centuries. In other words ; Accept to age and treat seriously the "consequences of aging". Because old age is not necessarily a shipwreck if you can be young for centuries. Lastly, you did not consider AI and robotics which will compensate the workforce : Agility Robotics is constructing the first massive humanoid factory to produce 10 000 robots a year. It is time to move from traditional view, don't you think?

Anyone who puts their 5 year old child in a face mask should be arrested for child abuse.

There are multiple reasons that add to its complexity!!! There is nothing that can be done!!!

Why its worse than we think? Its because we don't care. Next time, try "How Japan's population collapse is worse than you think. "

Japan could probably do it if they became the “America “ of Asia. Open their country to up to citizens from other Asian countries especially ppl looking for a better life. They could probably invite ppl to populate the country towns.

Doesnt matter to be less people, only if neighbors assholes ccome to invade

This is what happens in every places ahead that chooses profits above all. You get people living individualistic lifes working their ass off to barely pay the bills in + and + bs jobs that could be soon or already remplaced by machines. Corporations are the "new" force of power. Sure you can vote, but in masses I think people don’t realize how much power they have in selecting they purchase of good by buying, only when it comes to boycotts ppl do that bc they also want the cheapest above all, thats a vicious circle. This phenomena has been at the root of most of modern societies major problems economically ecologically socially families/birth rate geopolitical etc ..

They're simply leading the way. It's going to happen in every country at some point.

I had to stop watching after you made the contradiction of a rural town being central Japan

Tokyo is too big. They need to decentralize. Incentivise big companies to move to other large or midsized cities. That will grow the suburbs around them with people looking for work. Aside from that the black companies are mostly to blame for depopulation because of the unpaid overtime. Dying at your job from overwork is a reality there so much that even has it's own word in Japanese. Maybe create worker protection hotline so workers can report bad business practices anonymously. That will allow for workers to be with there families and not just when they are asleep. You can't make babies if you're too tired to do your wife or if your dead at your desk. 😅 I really wish they could get this done. I always wanted to visit Japan but at this rate it will become a new Part of China before I can save up because the country will disappear and the Chinese will move in.😢

Throwing money at the problem is only practical if you have money to throw around. Japan is the most highly indebted nation on earth by debt-to-GDP.

I have an idea... A really popular TV show or anime/ franchise that somehow glamorizes having lots of children There have been lots initiative and programs to get women into STEM courses and careers now. When I was in high school, 90% of boys in AP physics were male and 10% were female. IMO, the most successful thing was purely accidental. It was the show The Big Bang Theory. Physics majors for both men and women skyrocketed and some articles even said "we have no idea why". There was kid's show called Project MC2 which I thought was fcking brilliant because it associated science with girliness, fashion, spies, gadgets, adventures and dolls. Literally each science experiment toy kit came with a doll and .. well it worked lol

Bitcoin solves this. If it's true that money is ultimately the main reason behind it, then the sooner Japan adopts bitcoin and educates its people about it, the better off they will be. If they do it before most other countries, they can benefit massively from it. If they drag their feet and do it later, they will get fucked over.

The “west” is importing millions of people. That’s the only reason it’s not as bad as Japan. Actual home grown people don’t have kids anymore, I think it’s a good thing.

This is coming to all developed countries.

Take 25% off rent or mortgage for young couples, another 25% off for every child. With three kids, parents live free of all housing costs. You do that in any country today, and the birth rate would spike. It is otherwise impossible to contemplate having children in today's world.

Same like in the rest of the world. Only africa have population rise. And Japan is in better situation than western europe. Without mass migration they keep stability of the society.

To balance things out, there will need to be a wealth and power transfer between generation. Democracy and extensions in life have created a situation where the elderly have disproportionate power compared to youth, at the same time that technology makes it more feasible to forego sex and reproduction. To reduce the burden of a growing population of elders on the young, the still healthy recently retired could be drafted into national service to provide elder care for those even older. In the past, the combination of a growing population and death during old age, prevented the system from getting too unbalanced. Changes will have to happen. This can be seen in stressed countries like Ukraine, where young folks are spared conscription, but not those older.

How long does it take that young Japanese start to realise Japan holds no future for them anymore and they start leaving Japan in large numbers...

A shrinking population can only be a good thing for an overpopulated country like Japan. They set an example for the rest of Asia and the whole world. Let the oldies look after the oldies and the problem will sort itself out over time.

coincident or not, those countries with pornography industry, brothel industry, all having population collapse problem.

Why do you use collapse? Japan tfr is 1.3

Don’t forget South Korea is worse!

So I'm just a regular with a regular thinking process 🤔 why don't you make it so beneficial to have children that it would be dumb financially not to? like people with children don't pay income tax or some kind of crazy incentive like that

The solution could cloning and all that if they want to stop thar

If they want to increase permanent residency of immigrants, they are eventually going to have to repeal the law that prohibits non-ethnic Japanese from owning property in Japan. If you want foreigners to stay in your country, you have to give them the option of eventually OWNING their houses, not just renting them forever. Plus, let them own property and they may build more houses themselves (I know there is very little shortage in housing in the non-urban areas, due to the population drop, but a big family needs a big house, and there are fewer of those.

Foreigners will work just look at europe! Despite low births population grew! Otherwise total cultural u-turn needed. Woman at home and men working less.