The number of children born in Japan in 2025 fell from a year earlier to 705,809, the fewest since data became available in 1899 and hitting a new low for the 10th consecutive year, health ministry data showed Thursday.
They haven’t tried nothing, they consistently raise taxes on consumer goods while salaries remain stagnant. And since it hasn’t solved anything yet they’ll just keep trying it until it works.
Idk at this point it might be a good gamble. An attitude I hear a lot in Europe is “we don’t have a bunch of kids like those immigrants”.
If there’s no immigrants to compare yourself to, what happens then? I guess we find out in Japan.
Japan already has fairly low immigration numbers. Currently they’re at like… 4 million, or about 3% of their total population. Contrast with America having around mid-50 million, or about 15% of their population being immigrants.
Immigrants are absolutely not the problem for Japan. A weak yen, high cost of living, work culture that glorifies basically never being home to the point folks were dying (Look up Karoshi.). Heck, probably some culture norms shifting on top of that, as it becomes more acceptable to just not have kids at all, which friends get because, well, gestures broadly
We already know what happens though. Never heard of the hate between two neighboring villages in the past and “them over there” being evil manifest? Humans like to separate between in and out group. If skin color isn’t easily to blame anymore, it will fall back to regional differences. So we can stop that experiment and try to improve as a species again.
And they elected a conservative leader that’s wants to reduce immigration.
We’ve tried nothing and were all out of ideas!
They haven’t tried nothing, they consistently raise taxes on consumer goods while salaries remain stagnant. And since it hasn’t solved anything yet they’ll just keep trying it until it works.
Idk at this point it might be a good gamble. An attitude I hear a lot in Europe is “we don’t have a bunch of kids like those immigrants”.
If there’s no immigrants to compare yourself to, what happens then? I guess we find out in Japan.
Japan is collapsing already.
Japan already has fairly low immigration numbers. Currently they’re at like… 4 million, or about 3% of their total population. Contrast with America having around mid-50 million, or about 15% of their population being immigrants.
Immigrants are absolutely not the problem for Japan. A weak yen, high cost of living, work culture that glorifies basically never being home to the point folks were dying (Look up Karoshi.). Heck, probably some culture norms shifting on top of that, as it becomes more acceptable to just not have kids at all, which friends get because, well, gestures broadly
We already know what happens though. Never heard of the hate between two neighboring villages in the past and “them over there” being evil manifest? Humans like to separate between in and out group. If skin color isn’t easily to blame anymore, it will fall back to regional differences. So we can stop that experiment and try to improve as a species again.
Please?