Japan has a VERY restrictive immigration policy and will survive as a smaller Japan.
We, on the other hand...
We have forty or fifty million illegals we would be happy to send them...
Could it be that the population moved to other areas of Japan. Tokyo has a pretty big population. This story could be said in many small towns in America.
They have a serious problem there, at least in the next few decades.
Eventually they will have to liberalize immigration just to staff the nursing homes, I assume that suicide is no longer popular there post WWII.
Chesterton on birth control/population control: In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”
If they need a Stud Service, I will carry Laz’s luggage and be quite happy to handle the leftovers.
TT
Third, both the government and companies should encourage more women to enter the labor force with high-quality jobs on a par with men and offer incentives to women to return to work after childbirth. In places where these sorts of reforms have taken hold, from France to Sweden, the result has been a boost to the birthrate and the economy.
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Pay moms to stay hoome and have a scad of children. Subsudize the scad.
Oh well. A nice empty place for us rednecks to move to when life here becomes unbearable. And I hear it's beautiful.
Capitalism depends on growth to prosper. I think the prospects for Japan are grim. But it will be an interesting experiment to watch.
However, on the far side of that, Japan will end up with an efficient, automated society, with a small population and the ability to run a large national economy with just a core group of producers. That could be a good thing.
To put it another way: Think of the US with a population of perhaps 200 Million. Imagine that we've got rid of all the moochers. All the lazy people, the derelicts. We're left with an efficient, automated society, we have a vast infrastructure in place, and we have a total population of 200 million, all of whom are genuine producers.
We'd have a wonderful society.
Japan will have pain -- but on the far side of that pain, Japan may have a wonderful society.
I volunteer my services for the fansub community in America on occasion. Based on the last Animexpo here in L.A. and from what my friends told me, there is a massive flight out of Japan. Been to Tokyo and the prefectures to visit my college buddy who teaches English there in a gakuen’ or high school, he also notices a LOT of the upper grades getting less and less students.
China is looking to expand, so there's that.
If they would just open their doors, they could have millions of muzzlems become instant citizens and crank out millions of new “japanese” babies.
Problem solved. /s
NYT asks:
“Without Babies, Can Japan Survive?”
Yes, Japan will survive “as Japan”, even if their population shrinks by 50% or more.
That is because they are protective of their ethnic heritage and permit almost no one (perhaps no one at all) who is not “Japanese” by birth and ethnicity to become a Japanese citizen.
This is distinctly different from the Western world and the Euros (and Euro-Americans), who have imported others who are not “ethnically alike”, and who will eventually overwhelm the Euros by way of demographics.
Japan will remain Japan, but much of the Euro-West seems destined to eventually disappear — sinking beneath the waves of a rising tide of color...
Even if Japan’s population falls by 50%, it remains Japan. In 30-40 years, our population will be 400 million, and historical America will be long dead.
BFL.
Japan will survive just fine - they may have a reduced population - but it will still be Japan.
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