Posted on 01/24/2023 2:18:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Monday (Jan 23) to take urgent steps to tackle the country's declining birth rate, saying it was "now or never" for one of the world's oldest societies.
Japan has in recent years been trying to encourage its people to have more children with promises of cash bonuses and better benefits, but it remains one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child, according to surveys.
Births plunged to a new record low last year, according to official estimates, dropping below 800,000 for the first time - a watershed moment that came eight years earlier than the government had expected.
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Give me a fine looking Japanese wife and i’ll give the nation a few kids....
The power to tax is the power to kill. Japan is taxing themselves into oblivion. The US is doing the same.
Its tax, inflation, and above all DEBT
all caused by statist central planners and fiat money.
Same in China, same in Europe, same in the USA too
They need to get going on those robotics.
Easy fix.
More robots you can give jobs to and have them pay taxes.
Once you get caught in that downward spiral it’s hard to recover. Fewer and fewer young people need to have more and more children. And apparently young Japanese are not interested.
Among the large countries, median age of population is youngest in India. The government did pay compensation if a male got vasectomy, but that has not stopped population growth. The spicy food makes men horny and women more fertile.
We got some illegals you can have.
Do you have any data on that?
Yes I do.
I present, India.
No one wants to see the only true solution: eliminate birth control and severely restrict abortions to cases that threaten the life of the mother.
It don’t think Japan is especially interested in welcoming immigrants, legal or otherwise. They may have to at some point. Robots will only go so far.
Only one nation has had an unequivocal high quality population boom: the post WWII United States. It sort of stumbled on to the recipe.
1) New cities away from existing cities. Clean environment, conservative religion, a lack of adult entertainments, and boredom. And emphasis on community and children.
2) Employment almost exclusively for men. Housing that concentrated young married couples. Socially speaking, pregnancy and children are inspirationally contagious.
3) Exclusion of non-reproductive age and unmarried and predatory adults.
4) Work for men should be 9 to 5, and boring. Mostly paperwork. Subtly, promotion should be based on the number of children. But the higher the promotion, the less the work. Out of reproductive and child rearing age, promotion is to a traditional city.
5) Recreation should be focused on the outdoors: camping, hunting, fishing, etc. Faith, patriotism and nationalism are encouraged.
Hmmm, tautology. You may as well say it’s because of Hinduium, or turmeric.
guess /s was needed....
Vaxx Infertility
The United States actually made abortion legal (imposed) in Japan in 1947.
The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago. The second best time is now.
All of these are good, but I would argue that Japan needs to increase the “carrots” for having children by a full order of magnitude—and keep increasing them until they are successful.
Build high end single family homes with nice yards that are for married families with children only—and heavily subsidize the families.
Make families with children “super citizens” with special privileges—maybe have their vote count based on the number of children a married couple have—their votes in elections double for one child, quadruple for two children, eight vote weight for three children, etc.
The voting approach means that politicians will be forced to cater to the “super citizens” if they want to keep their jobs.
Japan needs to get creative—and then the “impossible” will become possible.
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