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> He thought it was funny because he hated Japan. He was considered ‘gaijin’ because, even though he was of 100% Japanese extraction and spoke flawless Japanese, he wasn’t born there and got treated horribly.

I speak it flawlessly and am completely white, but the problem isn’t men not being interested in sex. THEY’RE VERY INTERESTED IN SEX. They have a whole legal prostitution industry for it.

The issue with Japan and Europe and Russia is the lack of religion and the creep of self-centered-ness associated.

With Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (and I’m only equating the eternal view here, not the quality of the religions), there’s a sense that we’re not the central purpose of our own lives, so we create families and stick with them more readily as we see ourselves as part of a larger thing.

As Japan is pretty much 90% agnostic (Buddhism and Shintoism being cultural features and not religion per se), people are reliably self-centered, which results in few if no children and money spent on goods to please oneself and not to foster a family. The Japanese have a massive turning point in a few years that they’re seeing take hold now. You have Indians, Malaysians, Vietnamese working here and there in convenience stores, as nurses, and so on. They get a work visa for five years. The Japanese will eventually have to allow for permanent residency and then chain migration.

They will eventually see cultural encroachment from other communities and will feel pressured to do something.

I think in the next decade you will see the Japanese return to a cultural nationalism and start making babies above the replacement amount. You are also seeing (thanks to Matt Shlapp and others) conservatism being marketed in Japan. This is the second thing that needs to change - tax cuts.

If those two things occur, Japan will change. If not, it will be like an Asian-America, but with nicer buildings.