Posted on 02/24/2005 4:13:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
The number of men in Japan has begun to shrink for the first time since records began, heralding a fall in the overall population from next year.
The decline in the number of men signals a historic shift in Japan's population, the ageing of which is likely to have a profound influence on the country's pension system, labour market and tax base.
Everybody is joining the Brits 'Royal' Navy?
/British 'involvements'
Look out below!!!!!!!!!
All those giant monster attacks finally taking their toll.
Japanese men are on an anti-marriage and anti-cohabitation strike due to feminism and its usual push for a rising divorce/cohabitation rate. ...much more of a factor than fewer men in the population.
During month or year Estimated population Total population Male Female (10 thou.) (10 thou.) (10 thou.) 9(1997) 12,616 6,183 6,433 10(1998) 12,647 6,195 6,452 11(1999) 12,667 6,202 6,465 12(2000) 12,693 6,211 6,482 13(2001) 12,729 6,224 6,505 14(2002) 12,744 6,225 6,518 15(2003) 12,762 6,230 6,532 16(2004) Jan 12,752 6,226 6,527 Feb 12,766 6,230 6,536 Mar 12,759 6,226 6,533 Apr 12,765 6,228 6,537 May 12,756 6,223 6,534 Jun 12,768 6,229 6,538 Jul 12,767 6,227 6,539 Aug 12,761 6,227 6,534 Sep 12,763 6,226 6,537 Oct p12,766 p6,230 p6,536 Nov p12,769 p6,227 p6,542 Dec p12,774 p6,231 p6,543 17(2005) Jan p12,761 p6,227 p6,535
You can find the original at http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/geppou/zuhyou/b01.xls.
It looks to me like the peak perhaps has already occurred. (The first digits in the left column are the year in the emperor system.)
You'd think with all that running away and pointing the Japanese would all be in great shape and fertile, too...course with that Godzilla radiation in the air...
"All those giant monster attacks finally taking their toll."
Oh, we are so not worthy!!!
Its like you read an article like this and you want to shake some poor Japanese guy and yell, "Start F-ing already!!! Don't you like girls???"
Bad omen for the West.
Japan's population is about to go into a free fall - just as China is kicking up a lot of dirt in that part of the world.
The Liberals may finally get their way - extermination of Western society.
I heard many times that the Japanese have a two child policy. More psychological than brutal like the Chinese, abortion takes its toll once again.
Women who had abortions, many of them married with a third pregnancy, say a prayer for their aborted children and ancestors at the many streetside shrines.
It takes awhile, but abortion is starting to really mess up whole economies.
No, that's not correct. In fact, it is government policy to encourage more children in Japan due to concern about a falling population.
Here's a pretty good (not great) article comparing the U.S., Japan, and some other countries.
And here is the child policy statement from Prime Minister's Koizumi New Year's address:
In order to change the trend in decreasing birthrate, the government will continue promoting the Zero Waiting for Day Care Program based on the newly compiled "Child and Child Rearing Support Plan." Our goal is to spread the use of the child-care leave system from the current 60 percent to a 100 percent in five years. We will develop an environment in which parents can have children without worry and experience the joy of child rearing. The government will provide assistance so that women can exert their talents and take on challenges in various areas, including business or regional vitalization.
And here is a comprehensive study on children in Japan from the Japanese government.
And the major reason it has been falling is because of the government's prior pro abortion policy. I'm glad to hear that's changed - although the obvious implication is that the former policy worked too well. Poor little babies. And the mothers who wanted to keep them, if not for policy.
In the USA, just wait until the general public gets a clue about abortion vs future taxpayers paying into Social Security. That'll be a real eye opener for them!
This one includes the legal background and the legal changes from the post-war period until now.
I'll take a look.
I don't think so. The phenomenon is young Japanese women living with parents, rent free, with good jobs and lots of money to spend on luxury goods.
They see traditional marriage as a trap, where the wife is expected to stay home, take care of the kids, waiting for hubby to return from a night of drinking with fellow office workers.
The husband returns, to issue one word orders to his subservient wife - meshi (food), furo (bath), neru (sleep).
Until Japanese men adopt a more Western attitude toward sharing the family chores, Japan will suffer.
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