Japan lost 800,000 people in 2023 

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Actually salary in Japan is declining...

If salaries go up as well, that would negate the meaning of prices going up. Get some education.

​@@user-uj2tk2tv3zi don't think it's bot

Wow a bot commenting

They don’t want the same fate for their children unless they can improve their financial situation

So people in Muslim and African countries must be underworked and overpaid because their population keeps growing exponentially! By your logic.

Yea . At least that’s my reason . I’m 29 and although I been with women that have been interested in having children with me I’ve made it clear to them that’s not something I want . Having a child an a family would be very hard for me to support. I love children but I don’t necessarily want any of my own .

Ikr who would've thought 🤔

Japan ranks 31st in the world for hours worked per annum. The overworked Japanese meme is misleading.

The bulk of that 800,000 were in their 80s

To be fair to Japan, their school system doesn’t receive the same notoriety as China’s or Korea’s, whose school systems end with the stressful Gaokao and CSAT respectively, and Japanese people typically think back to their school years as a better time, so school seems to be the one thing that Japan is doing better than the other two asian economies with similar demographics

The country treat their women like trash. Its billion dollar phoorn industry.

it's not that

@@angelook7273 it explains why much of animation centers around high school or the characters are aged 14-17. Just another level to the escapism

Yep. Some people have two jobs and the cost of living is so expensive.

😂... these politicians are heartless..

@@Asim2846 By the same token, it was easier to earn more money and maintain that income level before than it is today. not to mention, at least one parent would hardly be present in the life of their children.

It's called not making the same mistakes as people here before us, you should try it sometime.@@Asim2846

In Consulting people work up to 80 hours. In Investment Banking they usually work from 90 to 100 hours. just adding some facts

With the advances of AI and robotics, I doubt they are too worried.

The population wouldn’t decline this much if corporations gave people more time off, so people can actually live instead of work

Why hire humans when robots and computers are so much better and will be even better in the future?

​@@extremepsyche3135 will AI buy whatever these corporations make?

​@@Bookstar28don't need to once they can make and produce whatever big boss wants. Why need money then?

Economics everyone should know Condoms are cheaper than plan B, Plan B is cheaper than an abortion, abortion is cheaper than diapers

I think it's more about women not being forced to have kids anymore. In a lot of euro countries housing isn't cheap but it doesn't stop Muslims from having 4 kids before being 25

​@PatrickArcato that's what he meant by birth control, it allowed women to choose.

@@jayc342009 It's cultural progress that did so, not scientific. Again birth control exists for Muslims but they're still spreading like bunnies

⁠@@PatrickArcatobecause those muslims get welfare checks paid for by the whites(real euros). The euro population is shrinking because they’re taxed heavily to pay the migrates and give them homes instead while the white can barely afford rent. Same exact thing is happening in the US and South Africa.

You said it like it was something bad. Over the past 100 years, the world's population has increased 3.5 times and continues to increase. If in some regions the population is declining, this should be perceived as a positive process.

@UserUser-in6ig I didn't say population declines are bad. In my personal opinion in the long term it is something that needs to happen, there should not be such a thing as infinite growth, and that should hopefully increase wages and reduce the price of food and housing. From the financial perspective of governments and companies however, a decreasing population/ workforce would be bad. What I do think is bad is the growing wealth gap.

@@purplepotato8849purple, almost nothing in your first comment is true. Please start valuing human life.

​ @earlysda Perhaps you'd like to elaborate? And why would overpopulation equate to valuing human life and population decline equate to not valuing human life? If anything, overpopulation decreases quality of life. Population declines occur naturally when birth rates fall, no one is advocating slaughter.

@s1767 The correlation between wealth of a country, income, and family size is down to a set of different factors, which you can Google. In rural areas which are labor-intensive children may be a net benefit, there is also access to and education regarding prophylactics, marriage age, child mortality rates etc and other determining factors. The causes as it relates to individual countries can get very diverse. This video and other similar ones are focusing on declining birth rates in supposedly affluent and developed countries.

Who could have seen that coming? The only reason Africans are having babies is they’re lazy. I bet most of them don’t work.

lol

If they have money to buy condoms AnD anti babies pills they have money to have kids

Nor should they. Should always be a mother at home, so this idea that women working as mothers is acceptable is absolutely depraved.

That's what the plan was the entire time.

So you have descendants. who knows maybe 100 years from now things will be better. we’re all part of very very very ancient bloodlines and things have changed dramatically for our ancestors through time who are we to end it all now by choice???

​@@randomperson5817 live in the present, not for the future, it is their blood line, they know what is best for them, who are we to talk about this? According to u in 100 yrs it will become better but what will happen if it become more worse, are u willing to take the responsibility??

​@@randomperson5817It isn't even greedy, people are just asking for basic needs, which their previous generation had. Affordable housing, sustainable child raising cost. Why would people wanna compromise their freedom for this greedy world?

@@randomperson5817this is the type of thing the government needs to make sacrifices for, not struggling individual people. People shouldn’t be pressured into having kids knowing they can’t care for them the way they want to just so their lineage will continue on. Like the other comment said we can’t live in the future, hoping that maybe in the future things will get better while neglecting everything in the present.

@@randomperson5817 That's a huge maybe...

As a parent myself, I would not mind my children not having any children of their own if matters are the same or worse. I’d encourage them to live freely and enjoy their lives being single rather than raise children while trying to survive inflation. Society has taught me inflation is unpredictable, and no matter how high your salary is, you cannot win the race.

@mabushipster9578 In poor countries usually the quality of life has always been low, so there's not much difference between generations. Plus in some cases children are seen as a paycheck, either as laborers or to receive government assistance.

Agreed, and I think it also can be called plutocracy.

You know, when you think about having a child from a neutral point of view, a question comes to mind Why are our societies so maniacally obsessed with having kids? It's only logical that people who want and can afford kids should have them As a Middle Eastern myself, I will try to resist against social pressure to marry and have kids even though I'm not sure I can succeed

Capitalistic greed will end us all

I noticed that in Korea it’s a much more extreme version of this.

Not really. Overconsumption will cause the economy to decline, not population decline. If people consume less, there would be less demand. The economy will stabilize itself and the economy will reflect the consumption of the population. Developed nations consume to much. Koreans are very materialistic and hence consume too much that it is unsustainable.

Funny thing is that this whole problem is caused by greed. And yet, the consequences are destroying their beloved profits.

​@@Bruhbruhbruh-rn9qvEconomic problems are not the primary reason lol. A lack of willingness is. For most of human history human beings lived in far more inconvenient and poorer conditions and yet reproduced. Materialistic attitudes is what's hurting Japan and South Korea the most.

China too. They were too busy implementing the 1 child policy and suffocating girl babies for just boys. Now they suffering.

Ernest, that is just false.

Not to even mention actually GETTING YOUR CHILD INTO a daycare center or a kindergarten. Getting a spot is really difficult. You have to apply like years before. Best case scenario it's like 6 months before.

@@earlysda Those are two rather true statements on a whole list of issues why their birth rate is falling. Perhaps you could provide evidence to the contrary as they did point out actual issues and I am curious to how you believe these are not true or issues or both?

Sounds like California. Only difference is that our democrat government uses taxpayer dollars to support low income families. And apparently, it’s the low income families who tend to have more kids.

Some other issues include how most young people tend to want to move to the cities with higher costs of living instead of staying in cheaper areas... its like that in other countries too, with ones like china suffering as the elderly try to farm the fields now... another would be how the work culture of Japan makes it nearly essential to have daycare to even "look after" your kid; you can see how much they work, and even find stories and images of several that have died from being overworked, just dropping dead from exhaustion. If you cant even care for a child while you try to make ends meet, the reasons begin to snowball why people don't have or want kids. I know that it is doable in most places with high costs of living, but even in some interviews around a Japanese city (I think it was Tokyo), some couples just don't want kids. There are so many reasons why people don't want kids, which cant be fixed by simply having a government ask people to have more kids. I saw their government began making rather "progressive" plans, such as by encouraging people with family to move to the countryside, and even provide some aid for those with kids or what not, but I mostly forgot all that the plans covered, so take it with a few pounds of salt; I don't believe the policies will last long, likely being removed as soon as the birth rate becomes a positive again, as that is what I can expect from their government tbh... and no, we don't have it better in America, and in fact a ton of countries are reporting similar issues in birth rates falling.

A reminder that you are working and paying taxes for a generation that used to think that your birth was oppressing them.

Crazy or uneducated people can do this

​@@UserUser-in6igso since Japanese are Very Sane and Very Educated,THEY DON'T.....

This is a massive thing for me too!! I lost this discussion at spiritual level, looking at Tom Bilyeu and all who were affluent and not going for kids is soo correct.. I wish I didnt had a life too but my parents didnt had that spiritual awakening !! Life is a problem.. even if you are financially affluent .. everyone has to go through this process of "trauma" and I def dont want someone I love and I am responsible for to go through what I have been

​@@user-xp5yk6kc9iWas your life difficult? What country are you from?

It's objectively better today than at any other time in history. Modern people are nihilistic.

When the house is messy, who in their right mind would blame the house?

​@@allthe1I can clean a house, I can't maintain world peace

@@thedude3005 Exactly. You can't fix your world, so why bring someone else into it who'll be as powerless and then blame the world for everything? Or worse, blame the child? You'd have to be out of your mind.

Normal people who aren't nihilists and understand that quality of life has never been better

The average cost of a home in Tokyo is $330,000. The average cost of a home in Toronto, Canada is 1.2 million. Japan ranks 31st in the world for hours worked per annum. On average the Japanese work 37.5 hours per week.

​@@gordonbgrahamI'm questioning all of that, what's your source?

@@desmondjefferson2127 OECD (hours worked per annum by country), Japan's ministry of labour puts out a "white paper" annually that details hours worked by age, gender and industry. It's in Japanese but you can translated it with a click and drag. Also Japan Rail's data which shows that the evening rush hour between 5~6pm is the busiest in train stations throughout Japan. Japan Rail is Japan's largest rail service provider. It's estimated that 70% of Japan's workforce commutes to work by train. Japan Rail's data is of actual people counted going through turnstiles.

@@desmondjefferson2127 OECD (hours worked per annum by country), the ministry of labour's annual white paper that documents hours worked by age, gender and industry. Japan Rail's data which shows the evening rush hour in train stations throughout Japan are busiest between the hour of 5~6pm, indicating that is when the MAJORITY is returning home from work.

OECD (hours worked per annum by country), the ministry of labour's annual white paper that documents hours worked by age, gender and industry. Japan Rail's data which shows the evening rush hour in train stations throughout Japan is busiest between the hour of 5~6pm, indicating that is when the MAJORITY is returning home from work. It’s estimated that 70% of Japan’s workforce commutes to work by train.

21 y/o from Germany. Within the last 30 years everything has become 3-5x more expensive, but salaries have only increased by like 20%. It's terrifying, quite frankly.

30y/o from Germany, still living with family. Half of my money would go to rent alone. Then add up utilities + everything else you need for life. I am not living on minimum wage either. If i had a wife and children ( wich i would love too) my wife would have to work full time. There would be barely any time for kids. @marvintg2002 Yes everything has become more expensive. Prices here have doubled since the pandemic(and they were rising before).

23y/o from the Philippines. Living with my parents and siblings and I pay half of our house necessities such as water, electric, and rent

23y/o from the Philippines. Living with my parents and siblings and I pay half of our house necessities such as water, electric, and rent

Indonesian here, for a minimum wage in my region, 20% goes to rent, about 60% for living expenses is enough. for 20% most people goes for loan for vehicle, or savings, but most spent it anyway

Yes and Africa has the highest birth rate

Nothing to do with birthrates in Japan. This is more of a social/cultural issue not this work life balance people keep parroting.

​@Interlocutor_ they still need to fix it though

⁠@@Interlocutor_ the overworking is probably still a big factor contributing to the social/cultural issue

*Laughs/Cries in Africa

Not the African continent my guy. They producing like a factory 😂

I think that applies to everywhere except Africa (from what I know).

@@georgeschultz1998actually 40k is incorrect because taxes compound in tiers here. Would be more like 3 people needing to make 44k working for all 4 to have a 30k income…

@@localguy123 Yet how much worth is one african compared to one japanese?

why its hard? whats making it hard?

People don't want to work. Even if they work, money goes to high taxes.

@@Bos_Meong Money plus lots of time

@@ViperDivinity thats no different form any country then. Education is expensive.

⁠@@Bos_Meong In the United States we have public education so you don’t have to pay out of pocket

No it's organic. It's a unforeseen consequence of late stage capitalism.

@@bobmcbobbington9220 haha you are naive. Unforeseen and organic. What gibberish

By whom?

There are huge number of population in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 But Why there is no population in Japan 🇯🇵

@@bobmcbobbington9220true, and also the one child policy combined with humanity becoming developed. That’s why Cuba and China have some of the worst demographics. Humanity was never supposed to leave the hunter gatherer stage.

litterally suffering from success

@@mentaloutonline9876 if it's a success why are they still working long hours for low wages?

​@@ME-xc1st Capitalism. Low wages, company loyalty, and long hours are all end goals of Capitalism. When I pay you less and you're still obligated to stick around, I make a bigger proft; that's success.

@@water1374 so the Japanese working hard had never reached success, it's only the wealthy minority that leached off them that did

the irony is staggeing and dizzying.

source?

Still better than how North America does it. "Here is free drugs, go live on the street".

@@basedneutral1173their rate of suicides for starters

​@@basedneutral1173google it. Mental health in Asia is... well, borderline non-existent. Mental illnesses are treated as fake. Anxiety, depression, etc. The only "real" mental illnesses are ones that people will label you as crazy.

@@basedneutral1173i watched a lot of videos from non japanese and japanese people on how they live and what problems society has. Including documentaries. It's not just one particular problem, but a lot.

USA ?

@@prashnaveetprasad8339 yep

Is she aware that she could have simply had her baby at home? She paid $28,000 for convenience.

@@nothanks5846 No, she paid that because she was at work and it just started coming out and then got rushed to the hospital

@@nothanks5846 I got curious it cost $9000 for homebirth

Most of them just an anime nerd. Hotel capsule, video games and playing with their carrot, instead of approaching the fine Japanese girls.

Do you live in Japan?@@ad3mn

@@ad3mn OK, but what does that have to do with the points made about rising living costs, stagnant wages, and the additional burdens that producing children will bring?

​@@ad3mn and women only going for the top % of men. It's a lot of issues all together.

Aggretsuko was right 😂

Same in every western country

What do you suggest? With 1/3 people being retired, a ton of tax money is being spent on them, and there is a limited pool of productive workers to generate that money. Where should the state get the money to subsidize families?

​@@Ruzzky_Bly4t same as everyone suggest. Better living conditions for workers with work life balance.

@ReigoVassal How? Either the employers need to be subsidized, or the workers. Who will pay for that?

@@Ruzzky_Bly4t why should I a citizen should subsidize for it? That's the government job. They're the ones who are responsible for it.

It’s actually not. The dwindling population is lowering it and too many people want to live in concentrated fully developed cities. People like to blame everything to cost of living but ignore the fact that, the more educated and prosperous a society is the less they want children, and if they do it’s only 1-2 kids, just enough to replace them. Poor countries have a lot of people working 12 hours a day too and yet likes to have a big family because they serve as a distraction and support for when the kids are big enough to work.

exactly

with wages now one man can only pay for himself

Besides, why would I put a child in this world to live such life like mine?

True

The xenophobic male Japanese extremely racists in charge will never change.

Old men start it, young men fight it, nobody wins, everybody in the middle dies and nobody tells the truth

The problem is not about working conditions. Back in the day the working conditions were much, much worse, and yet the people had a lot of children. The real problem is very different and has no direct link with working conditions.

@@frankstrawnationyes, the problem is not the working conditions, just the wages and real estate prices (most importantly, the ratio between the two)

@@frankstrawnationwhat is the issue then FRANK?

they also have this "Drinking time after work" thing and if you don't accept the invitation you'll get scolded, like come on they have wife and kids to cheer up

@@cps1247 I know right? Sora the Troll made a couple of videos addressing these Japanese principles and rules in school and work, it's ridiculous that more people don't look at the whole thing and go "We should change it already".

yes a lot of time is wasted at work not doing anything productive because you cannot leave even if you have no work to do. Similar to investment banking or any competitive winner take all job anywhere in the world. The problem in Japan is its not about performance or productivity but seniority that decides everything.

If you think thats the reason, why western europe known for its benefits, work-life balance and high wages doesnt have more children?

As someone who lives here, you can’t be more wrong. It was, very bad. It still is “bad”. But the standard working week is 40 hours. The average working week, is around 45-48 hours. Most people are working 5 day weeks, 9-10 hours a day. You’d be taking what you know from the internet. I live here, and it’s not that bad. The Japanese government stepped in and put a change to that.

The answer is in your comment. It’s not about the hours worked, or the conditions, but when you expect women to work then the population goes down and everything becomes very expensive.

@@randomperson5817Women are working because everything’s expensive, having them stop working all of the sudden isn’t going to magically cause everything to be affordable… It’ll be the complete opposite because less money will be spent in a society, leading to an increase in inflation.

Let's all enjoy Japanese culture before it goes extinct.

The suicide rate for white American men began to climb from 1999 to 2013 up 49%. The wealth inequality has never been worse and today in America record numbers of citizens are dying in the streets from lack of food employment and housing, all too expensive or impossible to find. The marginal tax rate on the richest Americans (tax on income above $400,000 annually) in 1954 was 92%, today it is basically nothing. Real estate billionaire Stephen Schwartzman recently bought $1 billion worth of affordable housing units in San Diego, where I live and raised the rents. Homelessness in San Diego went up 23% last year. Wealth inequality greed and Chinese manufacturing are killing the World.

The population in US is declining rapidly as well. Nobody wants to raise kids in such an expensive and corrupt system. As long as the rich get richer, a declining population isn’t really a top priority to policymakers.

reasons SF losing population =/= reasons why Japan is losing population

People are leaving San Francisco. Nobody is leaving Japan, they’re just dying out.

​@randomperson5817 if you ignore immigration, Americans are dying out for similar reasons as Japan. Work life balance is better but the younger generations are broke and just waiting for inheritance money

​@@Aaron-bh5cpUSA population is still growing will hit 400 million in 40 years.

yes, true. cost of living, crime, homelessness, and floods of illegal immigrants are big problems in most democrat-controlled cities. i just left SF bay area, sad, it was a wonderful place to live 25 years ago.

Old people should be more humble. They are at the mercy of younger people who are stronger than them. Instead they feel entitled to everything.

real

So u want some help from the govt like the ch!nese govt helped in 2019-2020 by “taking care” of their elderly?

Younger people are creating their own world making life more complex. The older generation you don't have to have a lot of complex knowledge life was simple but you can have a family.

The definition of living companion has changed dramatically as gender war has been fanned constantly by politicians and now corporations. Especially the recent ESG

No its a global phenomenon in which developed countries that have gone through long periods of population growth start shrinking. I bet you if you were in a poor country where gathering water from a river manually was the norm, you would see everyone having many children.

Hongkong, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand also.

Apart from all the myths It's happening in India too our birthrate has hit an all time low of 2.122 (2024), which is the perfect number but the thing is thst it has been dropping just like other countries

Indian is moving towards one child policy

​@@davidmella1174that is true, you have freedom to live a life and not to worry about being arrested or shot ( only in USA) by going into land or neighbours front yard in curiosity.

Those people have no skills, that's why they're making that. Go look up job sites and you will find jobs that pay 10x that that don't ask for anything but skill.

​@@edenassos 🤦🏽

​​​@@edenassosyeah... while only 1/10 can fill in that job. 500k is more realistic for average japanese person.

​@@edenassosyou make it sound so easy 💀

Yuck, I got 230,000 yen monthly as a new grad as well… well at least they offered me a free rent 1 bedroom

This is the dillema tbh, their working hours are not that bad. My friend works in Japan, so i know how long they are working. The problem is, what happened after works which is the "bonding" session where they basically hanging out together and wasting so much time..

They seem to be making positive changes, but they are a conservative society and the changes are too gradual (probably should have been done much earlier like a decade ago, these issues have been present for a long time).

@@Shirokuma15garry, you do understand that those "bonding" sessions after work are considered part of work by everybody except the govt in Japan, don't you?

They did lower the working hours though, im working in Japan right now and that's what i've seen, the main problem here are the cost of living that makes everyone think twice to make a family.

@@thechoku9765thechoku, The cost of living has almost no relation to the desire to get married or have a family in Japan. . Basically, young people don't want the hassle of relationships. . Part of the driver, is that Japanese believe in Evolution strongly, so see no reason to continue life.

Nah, SG can take care themselves, they're small nation that have more friendly approach in immigration and their economy will not soar down because they got the malacca strait, and they're tax haven too so yeah no worries.

Malaysia only effect on their chinese population, not malay. Malay birth rate is growing up steady

Singapore will still attract migrants bcoz of English predominance but not Japan or Korea

Facts 💯

Our ancestors had hope for the future, people don't have that anymore.

@@jayc342009 nah people nowdays have better understanding of life and sense of purpose, they can get on with life without wanting to have children. Before our generation, the main long term method to cope with life is to give in to your genetically-coded desire to reproduce. Now people don't need that to cope anymore, as they have many better ways.

i think it's both

​@@jayc342009 They didn't have hope. They just lacked birth control. Plus there was nothing else women were allowed to do, basically. They got married off and knocked up by 15. Plus about 80% of the population were farmers and you needed child labor for that.

End is near get right with Jesus.

Inflation is the devil

You forgot to add the charity and pound shops !!

Move to a village

Let’s pool some money and buy land or houses, unfortunately most people aren’t reliable to do that

So you're saying adults can live with their parents forever?

Even if I don't have a place to live, if I had a chance I'd rather live in a car just to at least get something started ya know?

even worse...

@@2kiptwitify Is it actually worse though?

I can tell my humour has deteriorated because this actually made me chuckle

Check the sushi restaurants🤗.

@@malwads1836💀

Worse is that we all know it is not accurate. They still have records of aged people who are already dead but their records are not updated.

XD

That was my though lol~ the word "lost" doesn't fit quite well~

At 2:23 when they said that Japan's GDP "shrank by US $4.2 trillion in 2023", they made a huge mistake.

Shut up weeaboo

The yen is getting weaker they have an economic crisis and fell to the 4th largest economy behind Germany. Currency strength also plays a part in GDP especially a weak currency that will make it more costly to import further increasing the cost of living. Their negative interest rates are not helping too.

​@@YYLiow china had favored weak currency and had artificially kept it's currency weak for a long time now due to it's massive export oriented economy (there's more profit to be made on export with weak currency). We all have heard this hooblah about Chinese economic collapse fear mongering since before the evergrande housing crisis, none of it had turned out to be true. On the other hand, china is now taking over most of European exports like automobile due to it's competitive advantage with cheap resources and energy supply. Idk where you heard that Germany is taking over china, latest imf data shows the exact opposite. Ger economy is actually in recession and is greatly suffering from deindustrialization as well as farmer protest all over the nation.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@far_centristso, since evergrande in 2020, you think none of it is true? Aren’t there enough units to house something like 100m people that are just vacant? Isn’t the stock market down 25%? That… is showing that the decline isn’t true? My friends in China would whole heartedly disagree. They own businesses that are lost now. Their savings lost. Banks are defaulting. Manufacturers closing down. Japanese pulling out, Americans pulling out, sending business to Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil. You can call it fear mongering because of the extent of the fear. But, I’m not sure having enough vacant space to house the entirety of Germany in their empty units, stock market collapsing and people losing their life savings, banks defaulting, more builders defaulting, unemployment is increasing with a more educated middle/lower class, would be looked at as anything but a decline. This isn’t exactly ‘hooblah’. That is quite real. Whether it will cause a collapse, I’d say no, but, that isn’t fear mongering or hooplah..

Why?

​@@UserUser-in6ig because they are not reproducing kids.

​@@UserUser-in6ig they have a bigger budget to ensure the livelihood of retired forces than to ease the cost of childcare

​@@alhanbraga64I'm sure this is absolutely the right approach. Most likely, all countries in the world will come to this. Because over the past hundred years, the world population has increased 3.5 times and continues to grow rapidly. This could lead to environmental disaster and depletion of natural resources.

@@UserUser-in6ig true. but in Japan's case, they're running out of Japanese people

Bingo.

I really like their 15 min city plan

Hardly. No diversity

What is wef?

@@batgirlp5561 🤦‍♂️ World Economic Forum. The Klaus Schwab and Soros dudes donating to all politicians supporting their ideals of a NWO

That and I’m just not a kid person and I care so much More about myself. I’m not willing to be miserable for kid I didn’t want or have the proper skills to raise and not mess them up.

Exactly.

That’s not what it is.

Probably means not mature enough.

where did they go then?

​@@fidelcatsro6948 nowhere, since they were not born at all... Not just Tokyo. Situation has gotten worse in the other areas such as Chiba where I am living now.

I have read some of them and I must say I was pretty disgusted. And no, I didn't fap. I may be a degenerate, but even someone like me has standards.

Genuinely curious, what in your opinion are the real problems and what solutions would be appropriate? I'm not so knowledgeable about Japan's situation so i'd like to hear different viewpoints.

It's just one thing. Their society is also leaning towards isolation of more youth due to social structure.

Shut up weeaboo

Immegration is not solution okk this is stupidity you should focus on your own people rather then immegrant

@@miketess3358 economy is my answer, we all know how the economy is in EU and JP, and factors that contribute to bad economy can be deindustrialisation, plutocracy, US hegemony…. HK has been very overpopulated already and the living expenses are high, Singapore has high living expenses as well, i think lack of natural resources can be a factor (probably even need to import freshwater and food) . And BTW, Japan is also not rich in natural resources.

Facts! With all the documents and statements from actual residents of Japan that I've watched, they value elderly more than them young ones and they ask themselves this and that. Let's be real, what could be the elderly can contribute?😅

This happens not just in Japan, but literally in every developed country.

In my country everything is mostly free only if you put them in private then you need to pay up, that’s not the problem imo although most say it is

Where's the money coming from at this point?

​@@automnejoy5308the same govt that wants to get out of this mess they created. Pay young people have families thru tax forgiveness, free schools, work from home policies, and housing allowances.... if not, the govt doesn't want to fix the problem at all

@@desmondjefferson2127 But now they're in a position where they have a huge elderly population and less young people to keep the social system going. Who are they going to tax to support the elderly?

@@automnejoy5308 not every couple can have a family, so once a couple of certain age is married, they better start bending over backwards or they are LOST

Even the slaves got to sleep 😮

Phillippines is starting to become one soom

Yes, except the other developed countries do not have such a disproportionate ratio of 若者:高齢者, which is seriously affecting Japan. The drop in population is almost as bad in Korea and Italy, but still not as bad as in Japan.

It is. Fewer young workers equals less income for the country as a whole

That’s because unlike Japan, most countries have many carnal people.

​@@Vergil4093hope it's true...

It will stabilize at 90-100 million, this issue is so hyped, world has bigger problems.

A shrinking population is not bad in itself. The problem is the combination of a shrinking population + population getting older. In a few decades, Japan will basically be a country full of seniors, which is extremely bad for the economy due to lower consumption + lower number of workers.

If the solution is to just wait then it wouldn't be called a crisis. The reason we can't let that happen is because the current economy requires this many people to be in the workforce to function and certain industries are actually suffering from lack of personnel. If the population continues to decline, we won't be able to support the current economy as it is. Leading to even more declines other than just simply the number of people that are living. Things will literally stop working because there's just not enough people to maintain the current economy. Plus if there are more old people and less young people, that means that the young people will have to pay more taxes to support the old people. Of course this used to not be a problem because sons and daughters used to actually take care of their elderly parents until they pass away, but that is not the norm anymore and even if they do decide to take care of their parents, they probably can't afford it.

Who is going to pay old people pension? Who wants a economy that Is not growing, who wants to buy something is today is worth 10 but tomorrow is worth 8 ect

@@justapleb7096well said, I saw a lot of people asking how is shrinking population a problem in this 7 billion people world 😂

But their mindset "hierarchy and elderly first" is deadly, you can't go home if your boss does not go home, and the bigger boss does not go home because the director does not go home. In some cases they beat up workers physically or verbally like it is a normal thing.

@@ImranHazimAzhar that is like korean in the 90s.

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Because most Japanese don't speak English. You need to look Japanese titled videos.

They're too busy working and studying themselves to death.

That's because there aren't that many of them anymore.

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People. Aren't. Trying. To. Have. Children. Their reproductive health is irrelevant.

Do you think some of them know their own family lineage? This is Japan!

you don’t even know your whole family lineage and your worry about someone else family lineage bruh 💀

@@lolololgii754 at least I know some names of my paternal great grandparents and maternal great grandparents.

Cant feed and educate my future lineage is scarier

Meaningless chasing of the wind... doesn't mean anything to me now & definitely won't mean anything once I'm de@d

its the poor that makes the babies not middle or upper class.

Its not necessary

You can ask them if they wanna support for living cost for your second son, if not well tell them to shut up

In this day and age where the workers are expected to take care of the elderly through taxes and whatnot, if there’s not enough workers, then not enough money for the economy

Most jepenese are old hags sooo😂🤣

Bruh u aren't watching a war movie where 800k loses doesn't sound bad. This is not as simple. U just need to have some knowledge about how things works generally in a society

I mean they got 750k babies in 2023 while the deaths is 800k, so that is -50k in population, that's heavy especially for world economy rank 3rd Japan.

Bro they're on verge of wiping out as a country