Posted on 03/07/2008 2:59:51 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
The Japanese population is believed to have peaked at about 127.5 million in 2005. Since then the figure has declined, with some estimates suggesting the population could shrink to 105 million by 2050. The drop is feared to have negative impacts on the nation's labor force and grave social and economic consequences. Recent reports seem to indicate that the sexual proclivities of Japanese men are contributing adversely to the situation.
More and more men, reports maintain, are turning to masturbation and sex toys rather than to their female counterparts. And further exacerbating an already declining birthrate of 1.29 children per women found in a 2004 survey by The Daily Yomiuri, is the fact that some men are increasingly turning their backs on sex.
"Sex is just way too much trouble," a 35-year-old Japanese man told Shukan Asahi this week, adding that ever since he used masturbation as a teenager, he's never desired a woman again. [snip]
Low birth rate coupled with the aforementioned sexual dysfunctions make the problems that Japan faces immediate and daunting.
"With Japan's labor force expected to decrease by 10% in the next 25 years, the economic outlook is far from bright. In all likelihood, the domestic market will shrink, production will fall, the government's revenue base will contract inexorably and it will struggle to meet welfare and medical payments for an increasing number of elderly as the dependency ratio (the number of workers supporting the elderly) will shift dramatically. In 1950, one elderly person was supported by 12 members of the working population, by 1990 it was 5.5 workers, and by 2020 it is estimated to be 2.3 workers. Naturally, the government is concerned about such a scenario," Julian Chapple wrote in a 2005 study titled "The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline".
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Is Cherry 2000 something I can google at work or will it set off alarms in the IT office?
Maybe they should watch iRobot..
That’s a good, but sobering, point too. The number of elderly in nursing homes here implies a problem similar to the Japanese’s problem. Although we’ve got people, they’re not people born to the people who were here before.
The government and insurance structure is a problem, too, because many elderly people are in nursing homes when they could be cared for by their families (with professional help), only the financial arrangements are totally chaotic.
I pinged Mrs. Don-o again because she had her elderly and incapacitated parents at home until her father’s death at a very advanced age. I would love to have my father (who has Alzheimer’s Disease in his early 70’s) live with my family. However, although my parents’ “long term care” insurance will pay for assisted/nursing home residence, there’s nothing to help my family (with eight children at home) get a house that would be functional for an Alzheimer’s patient and help pay for the necessary nursing assistance.
(We’ll do it anyway, though, if Dad wants to live with us!)
I can imagine so many things that would make me thrilled if America were only concerned about America!
Shi! Chinese for Yes
They still live for the most part in one room houses with the kids sleeping next to the parents. Not exactly conducive to sexual intimacy for mom and dad. So dad goes to a spa or sex club to be serviced. I know doctors who are chairmen of medical departments (so pretty high salary) whose entire house is the size of my family room. That is tough way for a family of 4 or 5 to live. It has to be worse for those with lower income.
TTIWWP
And yet, that's the way the majority of people throughout history have lived, while rearing large families. Modern Japanese, if reasonably well off, have 4 or 5 room houses/apartments, which is more than my grandmother's family, in Missouri in the early 20th century, had: Parents and five children in 3 rooms. And they were a smaller family, for the time.
Too late my friend. We worship at the altar of globalism for some nefarious reason. Part of the communist agenda that Krushev predicted when he said “We will bury you”.
He was wrong - we will bury ourselves.
“Modern Japanese, if reasonably well off, have 4 or 5 room houses/apartments”
Not true. More like 2 rooms. A bathroom and a central living area that serves as kitchen, bedroom, and family room.
I thought Japan was supposed to be getting so crowded that they were going to export their old people to enclaves in South America and other places. Guess that was OBE.
Too true.
I’ll never get the sex toys/masturbation thing (self) being better than the act between a man and a woman.
However, I like this topic. So much less depressing than the current election, politics, etc.
I would have to do some research to see what the average housing is for Japanese. Nonetheless, in rural America 150 years ago, families of a dozen or more could live in one or two rooms. (I figure they camped out all the boys, unless it was freezing!)
Japan has encouraged the housing shortage by subsidizing uneconomical agriculture. Global-view, this demonstrates to me that government policies are behind a lot of so-called population problems.
Well said.
I remember that too. Maybe two years ago or so? I wasn’t sure if it was real or not.
Ping
I agree. Their economy will go through some somersaults but less people = better quality of life for those who remain.
Wow. I’ve been out of the dating world for too long to comprehend that either sex views it this way.
I think the solution for everyone is to trade the unfulfilled Japanese women for our “undocumented workers.”
Is that as common as I’ve been reading on here?
Especially given that China has a shortage of women because of their one child policy.
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