Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
Japan saw record 1.6 million deaths last year as births marked a 5% fall
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"It's so expensive to have children in Japan that birthrate is further declining."
I swear to God these people couldn't connect the dots with a GPS.
I'm not sure how true this statement is. I go to Japan every year and the child care infrastructure there is incredible.
The healthcare is icredible - you can literally summon healthcare assistant if youe kid is sick at any point for free to your home
Then there's incredible public transporatiob system, parks, everything is equipped with child support and even culture heavily respects kids so they can do most things independently.
I think they mean expensive time and desire wise and Japanese still work incredible hours many of which seem to actually negatively impact productivity. People don't feel like such investment is worth it and tbh that could easily shift around with cultural changes but Japan is very allergic to those.
This is an interesting point. So apparently the problems of having that terrible working culture are solved for (ish) to promote procreation, but it's not helping. Gee, I wonder if possibly creating a society of miserable people and making it easier for them to create more people they presume will be miserable doesn't work because they just don't want to do that.
But what about housing? If you live in a shoebox with no hope of getting a larger place, it's unlikely that you're gonna have kids.
Housing is pretty good in Japan outside of Tokyo, especially if you don't mind a bit of a train ride
pretty much the same in korea, i think korea is slightly worst off, china is beginning to see its effects too, they already trying to change that by "encouraging more sex", but they arnt solving the underlying issue, which is the one-child policy that devastated the female to male ratio and HCOL. and they also have harsh work ethic.
slightly worst off
worse* off
My first two kids were born in Japan, and they were actually pretty cheap. The local city gives you some money (a few thousand) when your child is born, and day care was good and super cheap, like $10 per day because it was subsidized.
It really wasn't very expensive.
Well it does get a lot more expensive when almost everybody wants to live in the same tiny square of the country Tokyo's population will decline in 2035 according to some estimates
With Japan, they only have so much inhabitable land anyway. It's a mountainous island where all viable land is already pretty much taken.