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.>
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.co.uk ...
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.
The “residents” of those homes are the dead elderly still collecting Japan’s social security.
Japan needs humans? Instead of bussing crimigrants to NYC .....
“”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...
“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.
> 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.
I’m never sure of the correct spelling.
I’ve seen “filipino” and other versions used by experienced reporters.
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.
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.
Japan will be fine in the long term as long a they keep out other races and immigrants.
Idiocracy!
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.
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.
“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.
Thanks for the mention.
We’re seeing that now.
Or get rid of them.
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