[LonghornFreeper]

Sorry about the excerpt, not sure if USA Today via Yahoo is on the list or not. No registration or anything, just click the source link and the article is right there.

Reading this article was pretty scary. Anyone who believes that Japan will provide a bastion against China in the coming decades should read this article. Japan is a society already in decline, and fast approaching freefall.

[Happy2BMe]

We are Siameeeze if you pleeeze!

[FixitGuy]

"•Births. Just 1.1 million babies were born in Japan last year, the third straight decline. The average Japanese couple now produces just 1.32 children, well below the minimum 2.08 needed to compensate for deaths. As a result of plummeting birth rates, Japan's population is expected to peak in 2006, and then decline rapidly."

So in one generation, the population of Japan will decrease by roughly HALF?

I doubt it!

[BobS]

"Men are getting weaker," says Takayuki Tokiwa, 23, a student at a Tokyo vocational college. "Women don't have to rely on men anymore. They can live on their own."

Now WHERE have we heard that before? Hmmmm?

My current girlfriend is from Brazil. The one before her was from Utrecht, Holland.

Those Japanese guys need to learn pickup artistry. NLP and all the rest. Or are they just getting drunk and not paying attention to their sex life? OR are the uppity Japanese women simply disgusting them? That happened to me here in L.A. Have the women they normally meet forgotten how to be women? There are going to be many single old women in the U.S. The same may happen in Japan.

[Quix]

AT least one person with a dream or vision of China attacking the USA with Russia . . . et al . . . saw Japan Joining in with China and being given Hawaii as payment.

[pragmatic_asian]

I've seen one demographic study that says if current trends continue, there will only be 100 Italians, Japanese and Spaniards in 250 years.