Wonderful , one wonders why the government does not help because the birth rate of Japan is less than population replacement.
“Wonderful , one wonders why the government does not help because the birth rate of Japan is less than population replacement.”
No country has found that formula yet - because it involves making some tough choices: Either government literally PAY WOMEN to have kids, so they’re not tempted to work instead, or go back to the 1950s, where options for working women was very limited. Right now, working is VERY TEMPTING for most women, to the point of crowding-out raising a family for enough of them.
Women’s lib was started and financed by Industrialists to “increase the labor pool” (sound familiar?) and it has certainly done that - although at the expense of very possibly ending civilized society and going back to the Dark Ages.
Eighty years ago Prisoner of War Camp Fukuoka 17 was the site of my father’s final incarceration on Japanese soil.
While the local Japanese at the time may have been planting seeds of anticipated victors’ profligacy, the camp’s population count was net ever downward. The POW population hovered around 1700 men, despite the influxes. My dad called his experiences with “[Uncle] Nippon” a “meat grinder.”
When smoke from the largest ammo dump explosion ever (they thought) that had just deeply shaken their world rose from across the bay, it set in motion their opportunity to overpower fleeing, home-oriented local guards to quickly control the camp.
Few guards were killed with guns or knives. Several prisoners’ extremely motivated bare hands pulling in opposite directions served adequately for the perceived needs of the moment.