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Japan’s ‘witch houses’ a sign of a rapidly shrinking population
https://www.thetimes.co.uk ^ | February 13 2023, | Richard Lloyd Parry, Tokyo

Posted on 02/14/2023 7:50:57 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

You stumble across them everywhere, in villages and cities, in the smartest neighbourhoods and the most run down. They lurk behind overgrown gardens, decaying beneath veils of moss and ivy. Crows and raccoon dogs make their homes in them; little children peer through their gates and imagine ghosts. They are the “witch houses” of Japan — mysterious tokens of social decay in one of the wealthiest societies in the world.

Called akiya, or abandoned homes, they have spread like mould in the past few years. The last time the government made a count, five years ago, it found 8.5 million houses standing empty nationwide, 13 per cent of the total.>

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To: Blood of Tyrants

The causes of Japan’s population decline are actually not related to contraceptives but culture. They’ve got some really screwed up cultural issues; it isn’t that they’re not having kids, it’s that they’re not having *sex*. At all.

The causes of their population crisis are not related to the impending issues in the Western world.


21 posted on 02/15/2023 12:10:37 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The “residents” of those homes are the dead elderly still collecting Japan’s social security.


22 posted on 02/15/2023 2:34:56 AM PST by fruser1
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To: RomanSoldier19

Japan needs humans? Instead of bussing crimigrants to NYC .....


23 posted on 02/15/2023 5:23:05 AM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: alexander_busek

“”Real careers” are merely the symptom.”

But it also took societal change for women to force their way into the ‘men’s clubs’, and that was mainly through the courts. Now if women went back to not voting, then the courts would behave better...


24 posted on 02/15/2023 5:27:38 AM PST by BobL
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To: olivia3boys

“There’s a third path. Part time work for women with small children. I worked two 10 hour days for 10 years while my 4 kids were little. Best of both worlds really.”

No argument there, my mom did the same. But I suspect you weren’t on a high-power career track during that time.


25 posted on 02/15/2023 5:28:56 AM PST by BobL
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To: dayglored; DannyTN

> Raven hair and ruby lips...

And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.

Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.


26 posted on 02/15/2023 5:42:02 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: steve86

I’m never sure of the correct spelling.
I’ve seen “filipino” and other versions used by experienced reporters.


27 posted on 02/15/2023 6:19:09 AM PST by lee martell
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To: BobL

Well, it was “high powered” enough. Now that everyone in the “laptop class” is working from home and on Zoom only it feels like everything is less “high powered.” More time for work life balance for sure, with no commute.


28 posted on 02/15/2023 8:02:16 AM PST by olivia3boys (t )
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To: RomanSoldier19

My mother-in-law’s house is empty because she’s too old to live alone and stays with one of my wife’s brothers. My brothers-in-law have their own homes, and my MiL house will probably be torn down to put up an apartment building. It makes for a great base when Mrs. VanShuyten and I visit, since it’s just a couple of blocks from the train station.

https://cheaphousesjapan.com/


29 posted on 02/15/2023 8:28:32 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Japan will be fine in the long term as long a they keep out other races and immigrants.


30 posted on 02/15/2023 8:35:16 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: DoughtyOne
If he’s right, it will be the productive end of mankind that will shrink and the poverty stricken planetary population that will expands. Fewer productive people, and far more non-productive people, comparatively.

Idiocracy!

31 posted on 02/15/2023 8:39:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoughtyOne

And think about it, we’ve got the tools now that can help stupid people cope, AI will basically do all the “thinking” for them.


32 posted on 02/15/2023 8:40:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BobL
or make being a mommy a profitable career

In America, being a responsible, MARRIED mother is not "profitable" ...

but being a deliberately unmarried "baby-mama" with numerous offspring by numerous "baby-daddies" pays pretty well.

33 posted on 02/15/2023 8:42:34 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: lee martell
My girlfriend from Davao always spells it Filipino / Filipina or uses the word Pinoy which they say among themselves.
34 posted on 02/15/2023 10:12:18 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: BobL

“huge tax credits for kids”

I have proposed a much more radical solution for countries that want folks to have kids.

Create “super citizens”:

—A married couple with one child—the adults would have their vote doubled—with two children quadrupled—three
children vote counts for eight, etc.

That would give families with children huge political power to shape legislation into a family-friendly form.

The politicians would have to cater to them or get voted out of office.


35 posted on 02/15/2023 10:18:49 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ModelBreaker

Thanks for the mention.


36 posted on 02/15/2023 5:51:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: dfwgator

We’re seeing that now.


37 posted on 02/15/2023 5:52:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: dfwgator

Or get rid of them.


38 posted on 02/15/2023 5:52:42 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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