Posted on 04/20/2023 11:02:27 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Childhood is in crisis. History is not repeating itself. This has never happened before. In Japan and worldwide – but in Japan especially – the strongest terminology applies.
Children in Japan are an endangered species. Fewer and fewer children are being born. The 799,278 births recorded in 2022 represent a 5.1-percent decline from 2021. It’s the seventh consecutive record low – down from a 1973 peak of 2.09 million. Elderly Japanese 65 or over constituted as of 2020 28.6 percent of the population – the highest in the world; children 15 or under: 11.8 percent – the world’s lowest. In purely numerical terms, children are being swamped. There are 13 million fewer children in Japan today than in 1950. That’s the state of affairs the government’s new Families and Children Agency, born April 1, confronts. Its head, gender affairs minister Masanobu Ogura, has vowed to create “a child-centered society.”
Spa (April 11-18) broadens the context. China and South Korea are in similar straits. China last year saw its population decline for the first time in 61 years. South Korea leads the 37 advanced nations of the OECD in an unenviable category: its death rate surpasses its birth rate by the widest margin.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantoday.com ...
Send in Mexicans and Africans.... For diversity...
But really. Prosperity leads to lower birth rates. We no longer need large families to work farms and factories.
Their country and their people are getting by just fine without importing replacement peoples.... America and western nations have chosen to replace their people.
It has been predicted that there will be a population collapse for lack of children, not a surge in births. Of course, the Islamic nations are knocking out little suicide bombers like there’s no tomorrow.
What a bunch of B.S. Motherhood is the most challenging and exciting thing there is. It is also extremely rewarding.
Hungary is trying to reverse the trend.
“Hungary tries for baby boom with tax breaks and loan forgiveness”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47192612
Not just Japan. Whites in the West, too.
It’s also a false, the majority of couples looking to have children financially cannot choose between motherhood and a career. Those women are going to have to work kids or no kids.
Why? Raising kids is a lot of work. It is extremely challenging to both raise kids and have a full time job.
The essentials of life have never been cheaper than in the USA right now, except for in the big cities.
That is because of zoning and housing costs.
Japan is not alone but they can handle it better than most. Everybody there is Japanese. They’re used to sticking it out-ganbate is in their DNA. They’ll end up with a lower class of living. The people are poor already. It’s the country that’s rich.
Marriage aversion has already arrived in the USA. Low birthrates may take a bit longer though.
About 1% of Japan is non-Japanese. They pick their immigrants very carefully. Several members of my family have permanent residency because they have skillsets and attitudes which the Japanese find to be useful.
I’ll chip in $100 to ship them our messycans and ragheads. Those people breed like rabbits. Victory via attrition, and it works.
I’ve done my part here already and am still very able. Bring on the challenge but show me pictures of the candidates first. :)
Japan has millions of empty houses. Want to buy one for $33k?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4146832/posts#comment
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I've read those articles, simply amazing that family members abandon those properties after the elders die. They don't want to do the upkeep maintenance. The housing market there is different than ours - houses lose values as they age, even down to zero over a couple decades. It is the land that retains value, and not the house on it. An investment of money to rehabilitate an abandoned home there is generally a losing proposition unless you intend to use it as your home. Spending $33k for one might mean spending another 400k to fix it up.
That’s right. They’ve been very diligent at protecting their culture and their values.
The only real problem with a low birth rate is if you have instituted social programs where the young are forced to provide for the old.
If instead people were forced to set aside a portion of their income while working to self fund a retirement account (the way social security was originally designed) a low birth rate could be a plus. More resources for everyone.
You are correct - Japan will be destroyed by immigration. Which is why globalists will insist it happens.
Everyone accepts, without any thought whatsoever, that populations must always grow.
But when has this ever been true throughout history? War, disease, famine, technology, environment, climate, religion, social factors - all of this makes populations rise and fall naturally.
Now its only necessary because governments must service their massive debt, and governments and banks operating under a fiat money financial system absolutely depend on it. They collapse otherwise. Who else will keep the ponzi-scheme alive?
Ironically though - governments and banks in such a system, particularly the most autocratic and central-planning ones, CAUSE people to avoid reproduction.
when people died off in the middle ages from black plague is when the serfs began making economic gains b/c there was a lack of workers and they required higher wages. Obviously, the elites will do anything to prevent this from happening today.
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