Japan's Demographic Time Bomb | Insight | Full Episode
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2024
- Japan tackles traditional values to deal with a labour shortage, sparked by rapidly decreasing birth rates and an ageing society.
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you can't have it both ways, ppl literally working themselves to death, and/or working crazy overtime hours AND wanting the citizens to have families. that's absolutely nonsense lol
The government should do more to support working parents. I totally agree with you!
AGREED, Sayuri! AMEN!!
@@teekaybe4016 absolutely, there needs to be more programs to assist with parents, such as; daycares, nannies, etc.....and there HAS to be a shift in the work culture if anything is to change.
A person shouldn't live to work, BUT work to live, and nor should a job be one's personality and/or identifier. the practicing outdated ways of doing things needs to be re-examined.
Nice
Agree. However, it has been mentioned in the documentary that Japan has less number of workforce, therefore, they have instead normalized the overtime of work to fill the gap. It's actually really difficult for the government which to sacrifice, so they implemented programs that could motivate birth rate without compromising workforce.
Imagine being interviewed then watching this docu and seeing they subtitled you in english, when you were speaking english.
bruh!
well I mean, their English is all over the place.
How do you expect audiences to understand them by just listening?
His Indian accent is very heavy so the subtitles are helpful.
subtitles are usually for the hearing impaired.
I mean… deaf people exist a as bd this was obviously meant for English speaking audiences
I think by the end of my lifetime I will be able to see how this problem plays out which is really interesting
@@FlaviusConstantinus306 Japan is run by mostly right wing conservatives. The right wing conservatives don't think things through and speculate rather than reply on experts. This is how stupid Japan is, they give women Fridays off to go out on dates so that it could lead to marriage and kids. Problem is most men don't have Fridays off. Either their sex education is severely broken and the people in charge are very stupid.
True that
That depends on how old you are.
Well if I was a 25yr Japanese women from a family of only childs, just finished uni and now have to find a job in a country where everyone is over qualified and there’s not an abundance of good paying jobs because their all taken, and I have to look after both my parents and my grandparents and might even have to worry about looking after my spouses parents or grandparents, I wouldn’t want to have a kid. That’s 5 people I have to look after not including myself or if I plan to have more than 1 kid or accidentally have twins. Parents+grandparents+own kids+ im pregnate and can’t go to work and have to look after my kids= my spouse has to take care of 11 people with his job.
You would need children in just that sort of scenario. You do realize how draining it is to watch over parents who kids put in nursing homes any way. Everything you listed is a life style choice. You may be interested in a book called Radical Homemaker by shannon A. Hayes. Aside from the Bible, it gives one of the best directions for community/family/ and individuals. There is profit in crisis. I ask, who is benefiting here.
That's why this problem gets worse. If you had more brother n sister then it would have been easier for you to take care of your parents and someone from the family could babysit your kids in rotation??? I saw one dummy comment that it's not so bad if population decline. However dumb dumb dummy don't understand population won't decline with perfect ratio of plenty workers and less seniors and that's the worst problem.
Government won't be able to take care of these old people's pension, healthcare and nursing care combined. It will be long prolonged suffering for these people. Current government is only passing the problem to future generation beoz it's a tough problem🤔
@@emranhossain893 Not so tough for the wise who prepare and trust in Him. Government and leaders and those with authority deserve our prayers.
@@emranhossain893 Ebeneezer Scrooge said the same thing in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. But God Said "Be Fruitful and Multiply"---did he not? Over population is hardly a legitimate concern for the Godly. And your solution is God's provision that man so easily relinquishes in the name of Freedom. Little does he know, that he just exchanged the freedom he possessed for a cage with no rest.
Plot twist: The people were turned to dolls for disrespecting her 1 by 1
Anime plot lol
its very sad about the doll town. its creepy in a way but i feel bad for the woman there technically all by herself in that town. :(
Womenomics is all well and good on the surface, but typically women who focus on their careers put off getting married and having kids longer anyway, if at all. Actually a huge part of the reason why so many countries are experiencing low birth rates now is because my generation (millennials) are having a harder time achieving financial stability. Why would you want to start a family when you can barely sustain yourself? There has to be more incentive than the government just saying "Well we need more of our citizens to breed so our economy won't collapse." You have over qualified people settling for low skill, low wage jobs (or temporary-contract work), and they don't even make enough to afford to live by themselves. Housing is expensive, childcare is expensive...all in all I can totally understand how many people would rather bypass parenthood altogether.
It's funny to see that. A huge part of developed nations is that when women are educated or have careers, the birth rate of that nation slows down. One part to offset this is immigration, but Japan is stubbornly refusing this because they want to keep their culture homogenic. They would rather see their culture die off than see it change into something else. Stupid man
@@christiansoto9755 Exactly. I mean I get wanting to preserve your culture, traditions, etc, but if your population continues to dwindle you won't have anyone left to keep those cultural traditions alive anyway. Going forward I really don't think Japanese women are going to band together and just elect to make babies in honor of patriotism. Short of relaxing their laws/attitudes about immigration, Japan is looking at a real crisis.
It is good that populations are declining. It will be painful for a time, but in long run it will be beneficial. The governments think that higher population growth will mean more economic growth. But how long will this principle work? It will be unsustainable sooner or later. I think it's best that human population declines to the figure that was in 1900.
@@ramchandrahegde2763 yes excellent comment
@@Aja-Christian I hope Japan doesn't commit to immigration especially on a large scale. It is a terrible thing
What I learned about Japan so far;
1. stagnant population growth (death and births are at balance, not necessarily a threat to the country's future)
2. People working hard for personal economic growth, competitive hardworking culture
3. People prefer urban to rural life, major cities are highly favored.
4. Unemployment is due to location of the job, not necessarily lack of employment opportunities.
The channel of Let’s Ask Shogo has presented more reasons
lmao someone's justifying toxic japan work culture as "hard work"
good thing you aint a politician your lectures s...k
Where, in the video, is (your) #4 discussed/mentioned?
You cannot burn the candle at both ends. How are people who work such long hours sopposed to have time to have a family. You have to set your priorities straight. I find the situation you are in bizarre.
My country Croatia lost 15% of population in last 30 years, and what does the government do? They increased taxing to be the biggest in EU, created huge bureaucratic machine to "increase" employment and doing absolutely NOTHING to restart the demographics via subvention or some other type of financing. The result is there are NO qualified workers and growing national debt.
In the end Croatia will become a german holiday colony. German cars, german corporations, german language and all that stuff.
I have very sad news. Akihitu's virtual anime wife just filed for divorce. She said she wanted a real man.
He reset her, shes fine now
@@touchmeoverlord2767 lmfao
Lol
Generally good analysis, but at the 6 min mark they say, with regard to Japan during WW2, "Millions of people lost their lives." This is true (estimated between 2.5 and 3.1 million in total combined military and civilian) and especially costly with an estimated population of only 72 million citizens in 1940.
Then the video goes on in the next sentence to say, "600 million industrial facilities were destroyed." What? Obviously they cannot mean that each and every Japanese citizen (man, woman, and child) on average owned or ran 8.33 industrial facilities each. That would be absurd. Somehow there was a proofreading failure during production.
They meant 600 million money's worth.
Didn't the Spartans die of relatively the same thing?
Pretty much, that and they kept getting into wars left and right.
THIS! IS! DEPOPULATION!!
@@touchmeoverlord2767 Antinatalism PREVENTS torture PREVENTS murder PREVENTS future deaths.
Only fucked in the head cuntservaturds cannot comprehend consequences.
@@theultimatereductionist7592 how's highschool going?
Here in my country, the elders or your parents insisted you to get married and have a family if you're still single at the age of 25-30 and talked about loneliness if you'll get old. Like a threat what will happen for you when you get old, live alone and no one will took care of you.
I do the same but my daughters do not care. I wasted my energy to lure life into a dead end.
as long as you have a soul of curiosity and learning new things(useful and not-so-useful things), you're not likely to have time to feel bored. worrying about “no one to take care of oneself so I better get a spouse/offspring” is a very selfish act.
I’m about to turn 29 and I’m single with no kids, my life is not terrible haha
@@93seronica not sure about that. you come on here instead of being with your family, so thats a minus
In countries with high life expectancy, that age is (usually) 38-41 years old (the "midlife crisis"), not 25-30 (years old).
24:03
what thats mr abae's trump card more women workers or making the problem worse.Working women has less babies as they have to be in two place at once.
It's Abe, not Abae. Check your spelling.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
No, it's not about "working women", it's about the working "culture" (in Japan)!
The Spartan state ended precisely because they wouldn’t accept foreigners
Married with doll. Oh my gosh.
that is out of my thinking.
All of the good, none of the bad.
That’s why I will never understand some of the Japanese. I don’t want to because it’s just weird, insane and sad ... in my opinion. For the sake of what?
why can't he just be a serial killer, like a normal crazy person
lol
@@mvl6827
can this be a kind of denial of loneliness?!
not confident enough to seek love from others/had been hurt by others, so create a self-sufficient love relationship via imagination, clear of any possibility of rejection or betrayal.
One says immigration is the answer another says separating children from their families: Wow, how about humanity is too sophisticated for it's own good. Maybe "Progress" is not really progress.
The dolls are scary as heck, even with people they wouldn't want to go there.
Money must come first before baby making or else you'll face the consequences of whatever that may be. Money helps a lot.
You did not watch the actual segment did you? Without workers you can't make money.
You're more than welcome to make you're children one of those slave workers while I will use them to make more money in the future. You can keep making more babies your way if wish but there are better way of making babies like when you already have a lot of money so you can do whatever you want with it including making babies.
@JM it's true that some may opt of having children regardless of their situation but having money is not a guaranteed that someone will have children. It is a high probability that not having enough or an abundant of money will cause suffering or be a disadvantaged to your children and yourself. As for those who have children even though they are poor financially and in terms of useful education or knowledge, their children will most likely be in a disadvantage state during their early years of life if not their entire life.
Fun Fact: The poorer the country the higher the fertility. So its basicly the other way around
@@TuyenHuynh-cl7ec Poland tried and failed. Hungary also but they're kinda cringe so not sure if that counts.
in indonesia, have largest youth, but Unfortunately too poor go to school. end up in poverty. and the education 🤦🏻♂️
Exactly the same thing is happening in Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea.
Dr. Korekawa said that fertility was high during world war 2 but then the government slowed it down after that. What was it that they did to do that?
In America we have a show called 16 and pregnate over in Japan its probably called 35 and pregnate
@ARTOFMUSIC true I dont believe that the world will be almost 11 billion in 2100 because everyone will be a trans or homosexual
The Sunk Cost Fallacy is a powerful force. EVERYONE, prostitutes, strippers, cat-ladies...they ALL say that their lives are great, they aren’t lonely, and that they regret nothing. All their life choices were the right ones. I once talked with a homeless drunk who lived alone on a beach, and to hear him brag about how many women he’d “loved” back in the day, he seems to think he was a winner at life. It’s a defense mechanism that we use to protect ourselves from painful truths.
People my age grew up in a digital world. Our role models weren’t real people, but fantastical fictional characters. We don’t believe God is watching us or that anything matters unless people are paying attention to us. Keeping our (perceived) physical beauty for as long as possible seems more important than investing decades of life into loving and nurturing a child. One survey of American kids had “social media influencer” ranked #1 for desired careers. No one sees the value of intimate relationships like family. We’re making poor choices.
The machines are our friends. The workers had a farewell party for a machine. Maybe they will solve the birth problem like in the Matrix movie.
I don't think you understood the message of the movie but that's cool, bang bang cool leather and sunglasses amiright
I think lowering work hours gradually and having a slow life style is the solution but that will work only if it happened globally bcz of competition
that's the ideal but the privileges and the rich wouldn't let you. they need slaves to sustain/grow their wealth.
@@pingho8287 everyone is rich in japan and they choose to enslave themselves to their jobs
Shrinking population is not a problem. The universe doesn't need our suffering you see.
It is good that populations are declining. It will be painful for a time, but in long run it will be beneficial. The governments think that higher population growth will mean more economic growth. But how long will this principle work? It will be unsustainable sooner or later. I think it's best that human population declines to the figure that was in 1900. The current population is putting a lots of stress on the environment.
Let's start with no one you know allowed to have children if you think that way
Not for Japan though, they need to increase. Africa and the India needs a population decline since they are too many, same with other middle eastern countries.
Yea I don’t understand why everyone is panicking so much. The problem is that unrelenting growth is unsustainable. With regard to impact on the environment, that can be mitigated with higher efficiency farming and high density housing (aka more people in less space). The real problem, is that governments and business are still pushing for continuous growth with same tech and practices they have been experiencing growth in. Instead of throwing more land or more bodies at a problem, find a way to increase efficiency with what you have. Find a way to make the same output with fewer resources and fewer workers involved and take up less space. Be creative. But many of the elite in positions of power have stayed where they are because they lack innovation and now they are scared because they want to keep the status quo without changing with the times.
Agreed. Human population on the whole needs to go down. It will be good for us and the environment.
"It will be painful for a time," sucks to be young and poor lol, thanks bro
Revamp your labor laws (they need more labor groups) and open the door wide open to foreign workers. What an irony that their desire as a country to be so purely Japanese has put them in this position. They should get on that before they don't have a choice and it really causes a massive problem.
Germany is the 2nd oldest country. I mean at least germany has other groups of europeans and other germans from eastern europe even though germany aged earlier then japan.
Underpaid foreign Labor/population replacement isn’t the answer
@@Patrick3183 Then they will die. If they don't want to import people they deserve too anyways. The Japanese society they so greatly want to preserve doesn't even have the desire to replenish themselves.
The right person at the wrong place and wrong time
Main problem is minimum wages is very low😢
Crazy how the population will fall down if nothing is done. With current estimates, Japan will have less population than Canada by 2100...
Beyond insightful.
I do not agree that a long life span is a problem. If we define old people as a problem, that will give young people an excuse to discriminate, disrespect, and possibly even eliminate the old.
I can see that happening... sadly
PROFIT > LIFE = DEATH!
In our region Calabarzon in the Philippines, Quezon Province is the population troublesome in the Philippines where out of 41 cities and towns, 12 municipalities suffered population loss since 2015 mostly migrated families in agricultural areas where little jobs opportunities and poverty still persist
they are just ahead of the curve.
I also think women empowerment is one of the best solutions to counter the negative effects of Japan's graying population on its economy. There is a need to increase their labor force so if they are strict on immigration, might as well maximize their own human resource.
Female empowerment is linked to lower fertility rates already, and Japan is no different. You can probably find the charts online.
Lol thats directly contributing to the population crisis though
The BBC recently showed an article where they say China,Japan,Italy to
name a few will be at HALF their current population by 2100....i know it
seems far but not really.....For people that dont like immigration,
well ....Africa will be the main and major source of needed workforce in
the plane by 2100.....Our grand sons will live in a planet that we
would not recognize today...
I have never thought of this before i 1st set foot there last January 2019 (after new year to be exact)
Until we went around, think about it....
-in a ramen restaurant where the one who served ur menu is from Pakistan
-buy in stores like 7-Eleven where the cashier attendant is from the US
-go and buy in a fruit stand where the store keeper is from South Africa
I have all realised that they are becoming outnumbered
34:28 More efficiency, more productivity fails to produce higher level of reproduction ....
What about shorter working hours and higher wages? Japan's minimum wage is too low (like here in America). Japan's labor unions are too weak (like America). Would not boosting wages stimulate the economy? And why not let the old people babysit their grandchildren if both parents work?
There's already not enough workers, how would lower working hours help? You have no idea what you're talking about.
If change is to happen, then it has to happen in the heads of the people first. Meaning, they have to change their values and accept that the values they have been using is no longer valid today for the future.
Wouldn’t it be nice instead of filling the town with dolls, if they started taking buildings down, demolish empty houses, etc and replace those things with plants and trees.. start repairing the damage humans have done by returning these emptying/empty towns to nature.
Sami Lo I support that
Just my thinking! But Nature will claim everything, including dolls and
without human interference, given a chance.
The central premise to this documentary is false. Japan has an enviable steady-state population of about 126 million. The idea that population growth is a natural and desireable situation is no longer tenable in an overcrowded world.
Japan will not die out. Its population will simply collapse to 40 million in 50 years. And start growing again slowly. This is a tragedy since countries like Indonesia and Philippines who have median age of 25 years old are likely to explode to 400 million and 200 million each. Japan is set to be a very small country in the future of Asia
Have you heard of a term called population momentum? When a population starts decline, it doesn't stop, what makes you think that in 50 years, women will suddenly realize that, we need to start having more children. The very few children born today will grow up thinking that it's ok to have a career and live for yourself instead of having children. So why would things suddenly change unless there's a catastrophic war
Ugh, can you imagine 400 million people squeezed onto those few islands?
This program is very one sided is that it only focus on economic growth. It doesn't talk about the benefits of having a smaller population. Japan is over Populated as a country, people cannot afford to buy an apartment because it's too expensive and the apartments are very small. What about the environmental impact with a large Population, over fishing etc. With fewer people it would be more affordable and better for the environment. Other countries with a much smaller population than Japan but has a higher standard of living. Shorter working hours etc... Let's not always focus on Economic Growth but focus on Standard of Living. Would the Japanese enjoy a better standard of Living with 130mil people or with only 60mil people? Let's look at other countries like Australia with only 25mil people but with one of the best Standard of Living. Same goes for China. If China has 500mil people only it would enjoy a much better Standard of Living for it's people. Same for Hong Kong. If HK has less people the people wouldn't have to live in cages.
The issue here is not a smaller population, but shrinking one. If left unchecked there will be no more people replenishing dead ones. Taxes will drop. Who will take care of the old? Who will work in industry and business? No it is very bad.
Yes! Agree smart one 👍🏽
@@dharee1988 And if the population keeps growing for economic benefits what will the people eat and where will they live? In small cages like HK? What about the environment?
@@JessieJ1975 The issue here is not population growing. It is of a shrinking population. The one that is not stable where the young and old are of roughly the same. It is where old people will soon outnumber the young. That is where the problem starts. There will be one person who has to take care of 4 grandparents and their parents in their old age. That is if they don't marry. After marriage, well double that number. No it is just not feasible. Lower population is fine as long as young people get replenished. That is not the case here. Soon the death rate will overtake the birth rate.
@@dharee1988 "Who" cool robots probably according to the far right, the biggest brains
At least allow temporary work permits and stay for say 4 or 5 year's. That will solve all the problems.
The youngest in a village is 55
That’s fkin nuts, I’ve never heard that before
Why not pay woman a liiving wage just to raiis children since they are providing a valuable service for the country and treat it as there full time job ?
I read a novel valley of the dolls about a story of loose living adults in their 30's .I can't remember much about the main characters except one guy who had super human qualities who could still make 6 times and drank vodka martini shaken or stirred I am not sure of that. It's so long since I read an entire book
There is no way to overcome demographics quickly.
In my opinion, it’s basically the Japanese government’s own fault that the population is aging and the birth rate is low. Maybe if people weren’t so depressed all the time and didn’t have to work so hard they would have a stable family with like 3-4 kids
19:00 learn japanese before you come to Japan. Very simple.
Thaat can take forever english more diverse and useful language
@@blitzsmurf4371 You move to a country: Learn the language, it's very simple.
@@alluvialedaempfer962 speaking japanese no problem writing it is a nightmare dude trust me
There are many ways to write the same word in japanese and that's the problem it's terrifying for someone who is not familiar with their alphabet
man i love human geography
18:25 I bet integrating into Japan life is difficult especially when u already have a thick Indian accent.
Col. Lionel Mandrake, "but they make such bloody good cameras".
Japan future is going to be really bad.
Aleksandar Vuksa Just like Europe and America ⏱
Japan is very xenophobic so immigration will not fix their problem. There's also some areas which are sinking that have to worry about in the future.
@Larry David Then America should stop accepting immigrants to be able to experience what Eastern Europe is facing right now.
How many times have young people have been asked why they are not delivering children?
the root of your problem is simple...
GENDER INEQUALITY
STRESS POPULATION
OVER WORK EMPLOYEES
solution:
less pressure and stress in work and work hours means more time to relax.
relax people = happy people
happy people = more chance to reproduce
for that to happen means BIG CHANGE
Even in countries like Finland where pretty much all of those boxes are ticked they still have a declining population
@@JM-cu6ex It's a generational problem in the west. Why would we have kids when simply affording a roof over ourselves is hard enough as it is and factor in the declining house ownership, no wonder people feel unsecure. Compare the cost of house ownership now to our parents generation. It's not even in the same ball park and then sprinkle on-top lazer focus on Female empowerment which never includes parenting as a feminist trait you'll see an extreme decline of population that will destroy our society
@@Chuby123 I agree
34:00 The last think I want to do is hang on in a wheel chair in advanced age when there's no hope of ever getting out of it.
1/3 are 65 or older, wow
So if young people have children to take care of then suddenly they won’t have to take care of old people too right? I guess logic is not back from vacation
When hear at 30.00~32.30, I feel it is a double sword lol. Is robot good and how?? It could jobless.
99.999% of kpop has the same ideal face becouse they do plastic surgery with the same beauty standerd on it.
Its resulted all the same plastic face.
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Even face line. Why do you think there is soooo many people totally the same ideal face line in kpop?
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It’s biologically impossible becouse korean has usually big jaw bone, wider sqwear face with higher cheek bones.
It’s characteristic natural Feature of korean face.
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Korean do cut down those natural characteristics facial bone from the people by surgery and remake the facelines entirely different.
True. And in the end, who hates pretty girls? ^^@@kamuikamui8163
they can import young and productive residents from philippines, vietnam, indonesia, malaysia, thailand and from neighboring countries. But this might change the demographic landscape in japan permanently. It will lose its culturally picture permanently.
Weebs rubbing their hands:
Its my time to shine
Let's understand that Japan was not poor prior to WWII - any country that can dare to attack the US cannot be a poor broken down country. Japan was rich prior to that but became richer
Shows pics of the nuclear bombs while noting the people and infrastructure loss in Japan. By number, the nuclear bombs killed a minority of people in Japan, mainly lost in combat and with just regular bombs in Tokyo killing more than twice as many.
Plus Japanese government making little provision for the populace other than to die, with huge food shortages throughout Japan (see the anime “Graveyard of the Fireflies” on 2 Japanese children struggling to find food before dying of malnutrition) and huge civilian casualties in combat areas like Okinawa, as the Japanese army encouraged civilian participation in combat, or family suicide.
Change your sick working culture and everything will change. Your nation do not have normal work-life balance. Poor people working overtime made their life nightmare.
Automation should be taxed just as workers that used to have that job were taxed. That way the SA, Medicare, etc. is still covered for programs. It's only fair since they taxed the workers that had the same work before.
What an intriguing idea! Thank you for that.
Well Japan can easily solve this problem by opening up their immigration policy like in Singapore but sadly that will be at the expanse of their heritage and culture. Singapore too have a declining population but its government have a somewhat lax open immigration policy and that helped to maintain its population numbers.
Japan when its 30 million was still overpopulated. So why not.
Japan is very xenophobic though. Those immigrants might come back to their country after having experienced a racism with the locals once their work visa ends.
Pro natalism
The population of the world is too high. Let it fall with lower birth rates. More room isn’t a bad thing.
@@zyrahmaericafrente3169 the main issue yes. the fact a lot of Japanese people are fascinated by other cultures and people is very ironic. things could be easy you know.
So you want more women in the workforce although there is not much chance of advancement and they are still expected to do everything at home.
Meanwhile in the Philippines...
In japan, do they have a day off? Or yearly company building?
So this guy who married a virtual creation is a school administrator? How sad is that along with the people in the provinces who use dolls as a substitute for children?
We indians are everywhere. 😅
Lmao y is that the case?
Sadly, yes.
Japan is 62nd in area while 11th in population. Germany is but bit smaller in area than Japan & has much smaller population than Japan too. So in that sense Japan is overpopulated.
not that much lmao 83 million and 120 million..
Need to use a new form of capitalism and make children fit as a good yearly salary
Keep it up Japan. Save the planet.
looks good for unemployed youth
Hey, great documentary but could you tranlate every other language than english with lector ?
the ones with low birth rate are civilised nations is a good thing
This will be the fate of all countries one day.
Japan should lower their standards and hire Hikikomori who have been locked out of the workforce due to their odd social mannerisms
hard to believe, because they never pull out :P
I blame America
this vid is like reading the old testament...still debating about basic issues of gender...how in the world we humans all together are going to solve our most serious existencial problem CLIMATE CHANGE??? famine, death, war, conquest...
Japan will rise again just as they have done before. The Japanese don’t give up you will see !
Shush loser
All Japan has to do is pay people to have babies they can’t afford it and good free. Childcare and schooling. And help women to keep working
This should have happened 20 years ago too late
Think this is happening around the 1st world most don't want kids now would rather have there own life's .
Creepy town😢😢😢
japanese should find asian people like vietnamese and thai who to migrate to these places ¡! to have a genen pool similar to theirs¡!
They know horror over their in Japan.
In year 2200 there will only be 1 Japanese person.
good interviewees, lousy journalism by CNA
Change is always around the corner. Just because couples are having less babies now doesnt mean this would automatically continue into the future.
No it really does. Population trends are vicious cycles that snowball out of control fast. Same is true for population growth and decline.
That's what you absorbed from this documentary?
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Trends fluctuate. Japan's birth rate reached its nadir in 2005 @ 1.25. It's currently 1.36. People wrongly assume a downward trend means a continued fall to zero. Japan's population is levelling out to suit the times, in which 50% of current jobs will have been made obsolete within the next 25 years. Japan's population is already bloated at 126 million on an archipelago the size of California which has a population of 40 million. Most of Japan is mountainous, non-arable land. Japan is surrounded by hostile neighbors so in a precarious time of conflict it could easily become isolated and not be able to feed its population. What is needed is not more people but a more sustainable economic model that doesn't require and ever increasing population to sustain it.
Vietnamese,, Filipino, Hong Kong immigrants can help solve the problem
27:57 - that's true in about every country... :|
39:30 - Ideal husband?? Hell no. Sounds like an incel.