Japan's population is heading to 0
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This is happening everywhere to some extent. Young people have it tougher than their boomer parents.
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
This issue isn’t just limited to Japan. It is just that Japan is currently in the most advanced stage of shrinking and aging due to low birth rates compared to other countries and that if you look at Japan you see the future for the rest of the world as sooner or later other countries will be where Japan is right now
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.
Empty towns are common in Italy and Spain too. Aging population and few babies.
It feels like THE END.
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 😢😢😢
I would like to see similar content on Eastern European nations from you.
East Europe ( and some southern European nations too) are facing devastating shrinking population yet they get rarely featured in mainstream media.
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.
They need more companies that allow remote work so people can live outside of large cities and make a living.
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.
Japan NEEDS to clamp down on their working practices. Overworking is causing people to have 0 free time to socialise and spend money. Which is what is causing people to have fewer and fewer relationships
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 am from Nepal 💐🇳🇵💐 most of my relatives had moved to Japan for study but after few years they moved towards Australi ,UK, America and Canada. What you are saying is a ground reality hope Japan will overcome sooner from it ....🙏
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.
Extrapolating to zero makes no more sense than saying a growing population will eventually become infinite. As for a shrinking population being a “disaster”… Today, the global population is 8 billion. But just 100 years ago, it was 2 billion. We quadrupled the global population in a century. Two billion people was enough for a thriving civilization, was it not? There is panic about Japan’s population declining to 50 million in the next century, but that was Japan’s population around 1920 - a period where Japan became one of the Great Powers.
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
The japan government is quite crazy with their overwork culture, expensive life cost, pro old policy, etc
I have been going to Japan for the last twenty-five years and returned last year after the pandemic. I mostly stayed in Osaka, and I couldn't believe how the number of elderly have grown. I rarely saw any young people; I mostly saw young people when I went downtown.
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
My family and I are in rural Hokkaido and have lived in and seen a lot of the abandonment and decay. At the same time, the natural environment and closeness of community and the Japanese people's spirit are really something amazing, despite what's happening around them. I haven't been here that long, but I've seen and experienced the resilience and strength and vitality of humanity here, more than I've ever seen in a country of endless immigration where I came from. And I really don't mind it not "progressing" with the latest ideas from the west. Rural Japan is better off without it, in my humble opinion.
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.
I don't see any comments or anything with regards to immigration. Canada had over one million foreigners immigrate here in the past year. Japan is very resistant to immigrants b/c they want to keep things mostly with their own culture and people. In order to survive and thrive, they need to allow for more foreigners to immigrate there.
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
I am German and I have been to Japan in April this year. I was amazed by the technological progressiveness and the way people interact with each other... Even being aware of the downsides like the work culture, I was basically ashamed of how behind my own country is in so many areas. It would really be a loss for the world, if Japan fades away. I really hope they can turn this around.
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!
Nowadays people don't want children because life becomes so difficult that everybody is desperate😢
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.
Enforcing 4 working days + absolutely no working on weekends will see the change.
hi, i just wanted to say your content is great, you show problems that are going around the world which very few media companies are willing to talk about
I think one day every developed country has to go through this phase sooner or later.
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?
There is a sort of denialism going on in Japan - not over population decline, but over how reliant the government has become on debt. 'Quantitative easing' has been the only thing keeping the nose above the water for almost 25 years now. In some sense, immigration or debt are the options, and Japan has of course chosen the latter. Yet, NHK doesn't report it, there's little discussion, a good number of people in the street simply aren't aware - whereas in Britain or certainly Germany, you'd see protests over debt that high.
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
A Japanese looking man has American accent and an Indian looking man has Japanese accent.😂😂😂
Lol
You should visit Kameido, Koto-ku, Tokyo. It's exactly the opposite to Hakone and might serve as a model for Japan. If you rent an apartment, you'll literally wake up with kids screaming around and running past your door. You'll find many of those funny toddler-baskets - used to bring preschool kids back to different places.
This is happening in the states as well. I know people who work 10 hours a day or have two jobs a day shift and graveyard shift. They do this on repeat everyday and sometimes only have sundays off. Leaves no time for a social life or to do anything else. Some even choose to even stay at a job than to go to school and go broke so they have no time to master a craft or trade.
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.
daily livelihood in Japan is full of stress, struggle, bad feeling and depression that stirred your emotions, it a sad nation that look good on the outside but decaying was happening in the inside. I like Japan and its culture very much and visiting Japan twice per year and it is sad to see the situation deteriorating. Recently visited Kinugawa Onsen and walked around the small town and there are many deserted buildings.
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.
The population of Japan was 126,000,000 in 1995, when I first went there. Many of my students were an only child. They'd me adults themselves now.
This is happening worldwide, even in America. Young people today have a lot of issues and are facing many barriers in finding jobs comfortable enough to raise families. The job market is not as great as it was for boomers and silent generation and cost of living is so high these days. Also add the fact that young people today are getting less and less social interaction it is just a recipe for disaster. I hope all this improves , the job market gets better for young men and women, wages increase, and cost of living declines. And also we start moving away from doing everything online and getting more social again
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.
Japan has always been in the future. What's happening in Japan will probably happen in the G7 countries, China, Korea etc. Young people too exhausted from work/life to find romance, individualism making it hard for those who want romance to find someone, and even those who have a partner and money for children will have at most one child.
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.
Declining birth rate and population is not unique in Japan. It is only at the most advanced stage. South Korea, China, Italy and even Poland have birth rates below replacement value. Many other countries, if you strip away immigration, have below replacement birth rates. Immigration is not always a solution for a country that has a homogenous culture and society, as people from other cultures or religions is going to change the characters of the country. In the long run, immigration will make Japan no longer Japanese.
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.
Mass inmigratin would just *uck up the country as we've experienced in EU. To me the key would be that companies would allow more flexible work culture, focus on efficiency rather than presence in office, respect work times, open delegations in smaller cities that would allow to live in bigger homes without breaking the bank and focus exremelly in automation.
immigrants and robots sounds like the biggest bandaid to the problem.
13:10 No ma'am that's not $4000. That's ~$400.
This thing isn't Happening in japan only but it's also happening in euorpe and south Korea and Taiwan
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 czcams.com/video/6C9fHN-2dx4/video.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.
I hope the culture is preserved. So much beauty has come from Japan. From Japanese woodworking techniques to tea ceremony… Things are done with such intention and humility. It’d be a shame to lose this.
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
As a Japanese, I think many of Japanese are not taking it seriously enough. Actually, when Elon mentioned it on twitter, many of them went crazy and denied it and hated Elon.
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
It’s sad this is what’s happening to Japan. One of the most unique and fascinating countries in the world.
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・`)?
I get the feeling that Japan is going to be the first country to experiment with growing babies in a lab.
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
It's not even Japan but all around the world where it is heavily dependent on the work culture. I'm approaching my "prime" age yet I'm still worry about myself. Last thing I need is to have a child which can place a burden on myself and more importantly on the child if I cannot give it the best quality of life. I'm working almost 70 hours a week, I won't have time to raise a child. Don't count in the spouse either, because we're both trying to meet our ends meet and to have a stable retirement life in the future. Having a child is consider a privilage now and for the fortunate one.
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.
I am Japanese and I was in other country last year.
When I felt this country is rich, but I don’t feel energy from many people in here. people look tired at their daily life(overworking culture) and
elderly population is huge. Every people are looking down, sleeping and just watching their phone on the train.
Only when Japanese people is being active is in Izakaya. ( Drinking party after work)
The problem is there are so few new babies and yet you did not interview any moms. Motherhood is hard for Japanese women because the cultural expectations are high and the moms usually have to give up their career and the father works so hard that they are not so involved in raising children. Younger generations are opting out of that traditional family structure and the government/corporate powers refuse to change to make the work life easier on parents.
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
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Populations increase and decrease through time - we are not bacteria. The population will go down for a few decades, the conditions will change, at which point it will stabilise or grow.
Every developed country is declining the same way. The US and Europe would both be shrinking, but for immigration. China has peaked and is next up.
Your problem is having a static mindset in a dynamic world.
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Are you crazy 🤣 there are 128 million people living there
Good on Japan for not resorting to massive immigration to maintain and grow their population like Australia. Japan gets to keep their identity.
Immigration would make the situation in Japan worse given their population.
Australia the European country 😊😊😊😅😅😅
I lived in a dying city in the USA for a period of time and I recall schools closing every year and combing high schools w middle schools. Unfortunately this will happen in USA soon. Sad
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
It’s the same for the US.
I’m 28 most of my friends are still not married, and still do not have children.
When our parents were raising us, they were having kids when they were barely like 22 years old already married already on the house.
On average worry, about 8 to 10 years behind them.
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!
Declining population? Would love to move there. Unfortunately, as a client-facing SAP consultant, no firm would touch me if I don't speak Japanese.
This is interesting, yet sad. I'm American, so I can only speak for myself living in America when I say the problem, for me at least, is the cost of living. The cost of rent, groceries, etc. keeps going up, yet the pay doesn't go up with it. Along with the fact that dating is impossible and I haven't met anyone I want to date, let alone marry and have kids with. Having kids is just too expensive, especially in America. If they want people to repopulate, the cost of living needs to come down or America is headed there next.
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.
Wow, I just came back from Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and Nara. most of those tourist areas are crowded and many young people working and enjoying life there. I would like visit one of these population shrinking towns one day to see it for myself
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.
This is the result of tightening screws too much.
This has got to be the most chaotic video from you with random cuts to random things! 😅
It's not just Japan experiencing it and it isn't just people that's being lost. I was watching a video discussing the lost of trade skills because the older generation are dying before they can pass them on. Equally to blame is the younger generation which isn't interested in learning a lot of the more manual skills. Makes me wonder how the world is gonna look in a decade or two.
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.
best thing japan could do is ease their heavy work culture and incentivizing education and health
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
They at least are doing one thing right, preserving their ethnicity, and culture. There ceases to be a Europe without Europeans. Figuring out an incentive for Japanese women to have more babies is one major thing they have to figure out.
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.
There is actually an anime show called Sakura Quest that brings up this topic. The show is about a girl who leaves her town for tokyo thinking she will never return, she gets hired as an ambassador for a declining town and she starts realizing how much she misses her town.
Sounds cool, do you have any link to this Sakura Quest to watch please? 🙏
@@titiwa5768 i think it is on Funimation , unfortunately CZcams deletes comments with links, so i would google it or check on Funimation or Crunchyroll, it is a good show
What they really need is a better work/life balance. If people worked 40hrs a week instead of 90+ they would have time and energy for building relationships
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
Just spent 2 weeks in Japan this May. It was sooooo much cheaper than my previous trips to Japan. Food was 1/2 the price of where I live, the hotel costed less per night than my literal apartment's rent per night. Granted I live in San Francisco.
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.
Japan's population is twice what it was in the 1930s thru 1945 when it conquered half of Asia.
Get a clue.
...also lets keep in mind that 100 years ago Japan had a population of only 58 million people! Which was already very high and concentrated by comparison to other countries!
I live in the country side. I bought an abandoned house, so my cost a living isn't very high, but the issue is that there is not much work especially for foreigners. With the wages I get, I can't even qualify for permanent residency, so one day my house will be abandoned again.
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".
My country also has terrible trend people moving into literally TWO largest town and abandoning smaller towns and villages. Both towns are terribly overcrowded, infrastructure is cracking down because no one pays attention to it anymore, they are building buildings over parks, green areas and even in areas where buildings should not be because it's dangerous! Problem with smaller towns and especially villages is that government invests NOTHING into them. They lack infrastructure, there are no jobs, usually not even doctors, stores, dentists, restaurants, nothing... they even dump most dangerous chemicals there right into untouched nature! And it's not invested into protections from floods or any natural disasters, everything is invested into big cities! The result is that people are massively moving into towns and everything else is abandoned even though seemingly it looks beautiful and cities are slowly turning into hell. I was born into one of those two cities and have the sad opportunity to watch it turn from lovely old town full of greenery and art into concrete hell, collapsing fast because money is the most important and no one pays attention to nature or even architecture or possibilities that everything will collapse one day.
Fewer people is good for the environment. Im not convinced this is a bad thing.
Can anyone explain to me why, in an ever growing world, where jobs are rapidly being replaced by machines, a declining population is a problem?? Seems like it will just end up making a better quality of life for people.
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.
Also, due to less demand, railway company has started shutting down rural lines.
Another note, perhaps can we also address the working culture too in Japan (to govt)? I feel that we work way to much still...
I lived in Japan almost a decade ago and the first place I lived during my initial years was Wakayama. Arida City to to be exact which was way more rural and isolated than Wakayama City. I can't imagine what Arida is like these days. They have great Mikans though!
I just feel like this is a good thing. The problem with Japan is that they sort of refused to prepare for it. Money should have been set aside to raze old schools. The world population is too high. We need to plan for that and make the transition easier.
Pretty much all advanced countries have the problem, unless they import immigrants.
It starts with raising taxes, more regulations, more competition for jobs...to the point people find it hard to support a family as it requires life of constant slaving to some corporation.
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
Excellent reporting. Congratulations. I have used this video in my advanced English class.
Certainly not. It will decrease to the point where housing becomes cheap and homes can become larger. When that happens, the population will start going up again.
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
The truth is that a very significant chunk of the Japanese population will die in the next couple of decades, and once Japan has pushed through this challenging period, it will find that the ratio of older people to younger people will have flipped. There will be more tax dollars to spend on less people, more disposable income to purchase material goods and services. This will have a very positive impact on the Japanese economy, create optimism and encourage the production of more children, i.e. taxpayers.
It's not going to zero. It will balance itself out at some point.
Japan has limited space and ressources. The only things that could have sustained their growth were labor and tech, but these reached a plateau.
So without knowing what will cause it, you take it on faith that more women will begin having children
Japan is paradise for introverts like me 😅 who don't like a lot of people around them and like a quiet, mostly isolated life! ❤ Maybe I should move to a suburban there
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.
i was surprised people in comment section used to praise japanese culture whenever there was a Japanese video. But in reality i have seen they have worst work culture where employees are treated very badly by management and forced to work really long working hours. i have seen my colleagues working 12 hours in office and almost have no social life. they are way too disciplined which makes life really boring.
A few of the main reasons for the declining population in Japan is, the lack of nurseries,the wealth gap between working men and women and stagnant wages.
This is what i thought it not just long work hours but japan have bad child and mother hood care
It won't hit zero. Eventually it will hit an equilibrium.
So many young, educated, talented foreigners want to move to Japan but they make it so difficult
It wouldn’t work. Japan is not a settler society like America.
Thank god they make it difficult - because most who want to move there would probably end up in suicide because how hard that society is. That place is insane. Finland is the second worst place to live.
@@frodej6640 Neither Japan nor Finland are even close to being the worst places to live.
@pev how many assimilate.
@@hedgehogthesonic3181 japan and finland is on top on the list «where people want to move to» because they seem to be nice country for those who do not understand the details. But are in fact really bad for foreigners.
My sister was a teacher in Japan around 10 years ago. It is sad to hear that soon their country will go extinct because it has an aging population and the younger people are not producing any children.
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 ?
You are over exaggerating... As a Greek I know what happens to countries with shrinking population. The government tries to save face while decreasing benefits and retirement programs.
As the elderly increase the retirement age increases too. More people die before they get to retire and even if they do they enjoy fewer years of retirement. Until they system breaks.
When that happens the burden gets lifted from the young people at the same time where the standard of living gets reduced and just like that they start having children again.
Because they have to. Because prophylactics and abortions cost too much. Because they need more hands to help farm the land.
I Admire Japan so much💚
Do you need so many people? It is about quality of life and not about quantity. Resource and space is limited
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.
Japan has too many people. Canada has 30 million people. Norway has 5.4 million people. Britain and France have 67 million people, half of Japan. 120 million people is too many
even Taiwan is around 20m. it's the size of Vancouver Island, contrast to 800k population.
I used to be Japanese, but in 2006, my parents decided to leave the country and settle in Indonesia, where we've been living ever since. Someday, I hope to return to Japan, but my uncle who live in japan once told me something that made me think. He said that Japan can be thoroughly enjoyed as a tourist, but if you choose to live there, you might lose some of that enjoyment. So, for now, I'm still in a dilemma about whether to move back there, and still continue staying in Indonesia.
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?
Isn't it in Japan that people will sleep in these very tiny cubby holes. Also, rent one for a couple of hours.
That's how population dynamics work. It has cycles of going up and down. Saying that Japan will disappear because population is decreasing is the same as saying somewhere else will explode to infinity people because the population is increasing. Japan will be fine.
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
Child free!!! So glad women are realizing that having babies and a husband doesn't equate to happiness!! Also there is no incentive to have kids or marry nobody!! Everybody is broke and struggling!! The price of living has quadrupled!! It's literal slave labor!! No daycares to help mothers, mothers are disrespected and looked down on! There's so much to this!!
Yep. Men prefer tech, internet corn, machines. They will replace us with robots and artificial wombs, and this is inevitable regardless of what women do. I keep saying this, and it’s inevitable. Men have dreamt of this for years, but they (tech moguls in particular) want to enslave us before they discard us completely. Transhumanists want human bodies for their experiments, that’s part of this online push to erase women’s basic rights, push for natalism-/ they want more specimens to experiment on and harvest organs from. Poor oppressed people make easy targets.
the population will go up again you're just jealous
In the meantime, in south america, africa and india the population is exponentially growing out of control.
africa and india, yes, absolutely. but South America, i'd say... not so much...
Brazil, where i live, unless something massively changed since last time i've checked, has a Population birth rate of 1.562 per couple for example (according to the 2022 census), which is bellow replacement (2.1). and this with accounting for immigration, goes to 2.1, which is borderline replacement. immigration which in Brazil's eyes is recieved with open arms. i don't think there will be a place on earth imune to the effects of the age pyramid shrinking on its base. it may take a Looong time, but even India and China imo, can once have age pyramids wildly different from those we see now or seen in the past.
Excellent reporting! Subscribed!
Universe 25 comes to mind when I hear about population collapse. Parallels can't be omitted.
As a Japanese person, what I perceive is that even though the Japanese government is taking measures against the declining birthrate, it seems like they have somewhat given up. Furthermore, many of the policies addressing the issue of the declining birthrate often fail to provide a fundamental solution. As a democracy with a large elderly population, it's a tough country for young people who are trying to start a family.
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 ?
Stop calling it a "problem". People NOT forcing new people into the world without their prior consent is a GOOD thing.
My wife and I just had our first and only child this year at the age of 40. I really don’t think that the money will convince people to have children. I feel like money is only an incentive to people who already want to have children or have them already to move somewhere. Having children is much more about your lifestyle and what you want out of life. The money part is hard sure. But what is harder is not being able to do the things you could before children. The responsibilities. If having plenty of money is a incentive to have children, Americans would have zero kids. Childcare is ridiculously expensive here yet people have babies. We can’t understand how families who have minimum wage job can afford to have 2-4 kids. My wife and I make ok money and have flexible schedules yet we can barely afford to get full day care for our one. We had one because of my fear of missing out. My wife didn’t want to but she did it for me. Once you can’t have children, that’s it. Of course you can adopt but that is not the same as having your own. Women also have to think about how their body changes which is something men have no part in. It is crazy to think about a country literally dying out. Sadly Korea is not far behind.
That's why a person like me who is sick of mega cities and urban life and in love with a more countryside life is going to move to one of these towns soon! Plus my country has an overpopulation problem, so it all makes perfect sense...but the problem is that I think japan is still not offering a digital-nomad Visa. Until it does not offer that, it's very difficult to move there!
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
I know Japan gets singled out due to it being the 3rd largest economy. But all the developed countries in the World are going through this phase. And honestly Japan is overpopulated to some degree. From an economic standpoint, it might hurt, but over time it will improve I guess
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
I think lots of people will be happy to finally be able to take the metro without being stacked like sardines during rush hours.
Yes Japan is in decline. But maybe that's not so bad for the future. Right now it's too hard for young people raising a family. Once they're under 80 million it is probably gonna be a lot easier.
Right now Japan is beyond what it can support on its own long term without plenty of imports. So yes, when the islands have half of what they have now, it would be better for them. So many people don’t understand what life being densely packed together on an island is like compared to being sparsely populated on average over a continent like the USA, Canada, or Russia
Sad to see, Okinawa felt like this in the 2000's but seemed to reinvent itself as a major tourist destination, while I like money flowing through the economy there, in a sense its no longer the place it once was but just a characture of its former self and more and more so as the older generation moves on.
What is wrong with humans going extinct?
Sp both my parents (boomer and genx) did not follow normal societal paths. Both were more or less hippies, only to become normal Christians in the 90's. Sadly we were very poor.
I did not want to be poor so I went to university. The year I joined uni tuition doubled. Joy. I couldnt live at home because my parents abused substances and I couldnt even sleep. The last day of undergrad my dad died. I have taken care of about half of my moms rent since then. Im now 34 and only worth 20k. I cant afford kids.
Entire societies have disappeared before. Not shocking to think it might happen again.
I'm more impressed that you were able to find so many English speakers in Japan
OP does not work alone. He has cameramen and handlers who arrange and prepare his interviews.
When every major japanese city is amazing its hard for people to stay in their smaller cities or towns
My daughter had one child, had her tubes tied. My son refuses to have any children. I live in the u.s.
Caption doesn't make sense. From this perspective, population only can reach to either zero or infinite.
Someone is itching for a WEF collaboration.