Posted on 07/31/2023 3:19:13 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
Japan’s population crisis is accelerating, with the number of nationals falling by more than 800,000 in the past year – echoing similar trends seen in other East Asian countries.
As of January 1 this year, Japan’s total population stood at 125.4 million, including both Japanese and foreign residents, according to data released on Wednesday by Japan’s internal affairs ministry. The number of foreign residents rose by nearly 289,500 compared to the previous year – a significant increase of more than 10%.
But the number of Japanese residents shrank by 800,523, marking the 14th consecutive year of contraction since a peak in 2009, said the ministry.
And for the first time, all prefectures across the country saw a decrease in the number of Japanese nationals, a ministry spokesperson told CNN.
However, due to the rise in foreign residents, the capital Tokyo saw a slight increase in overall population of all residents regardless of nationality.
The number of deaths last year also hit another record high, with 1.56 million recorded – compared to less than half the number of births recorded, just 771,801 newborns, according to the ministry.
Deaths have outpaced births in Japan for more than a decade, posing a growing problem for leaders of the world’s third-largest economy. They now face a ballooning elderly population, along with a shrinking workforce to fund pensions and health care as demand from the aging population surges.
Japan’s population has been in steady decline since its economic boom of the 1980s, with a fertility rate of 1.3 – far below the rate of 2.1 required to maintain a stable population, in the absence of immigration.
The country also has one of the highest life expectancies in the world; in 2020, nearly one in 1,500 people in Japan were age 100 or older...
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At least they’re still homogenous.
Maybe stop fetishizing Manga pre-teen girls in sailor outfits and start thinking about the future.
So is it male infertility or feminist women who are only have 1.3 kids on average per couple?
We could be headed for a world without Nips in some of our lifetimes.
The three countries that lost WWII are imploding...germany, italy, and japan.
What we face in the near future in the U.S. as well.
The entire world will someday be populated only by muslims, chinese, indians and hispanics — then humans will ultimately cannibalize each other and it will be bye bye human race.
but keep telling white men they’re worthless and women that your career is the most important thing!!
The women are now 50% off?
Gonna happen here too. Feminism teaches young girls to waste their prime child-bearing years chasing elusive career satisfaction.
By the time they wake up in their 30s, their eggs are starting to die and the men are much less interested in them.
They can’t talk...
This is what happens to a conquered people.
There may be some hope for Italy, which recently elected an actual conservative to the office of Prime Minister and where the impact of one and one half millennia of Catholic culture still is evident in the artwork, architecture, and traditional mores of that nation.
So in the long term they will be fine.
“Japan’s population fell by 800,000 last year as demographic crisis accelerates”
Sorry Leftists (Ukraine War supporters), Japan is NOT going to open their borders. Their government is NOT evil, nor is it blind.
In New York and New Jersey, most of the people cooking Italian food are named Carlos and Jose rather than Carlo and Giuseppe. Must say they do a great job.
“The three countries that lost WWII are imploding...germany, italy, and japan.”
The ‘winners’ aren’t doing so great either, other than Russia.
Better off than we will be.
Will be North Brazil in 50 years.
At 84 years old I suspect I will be in the loss column in the next ten years.
In 1700 the populaton of Japan was 28,000,000 cmpared to 128,000,000 now. So no chance of a world without nips.
Just over 30 years ago Japan looked ready to ‘buy’ the United States, and people here were worried.
Rush, in his first years on national radio, had a solution for the United States to deal with this ‘threat’. He made a suggestion to the United States, which was done and we now see the results in Japan.
Anyone remember what he said?
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