Is JAPAN 🇯🇵 about to become EXTINCT? - VisualPolitik EN
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Japan is currently the country with the world's oldest population. Its population is already declining and in just a few decades it will lose millions of inhabitants. Japan is facing a demographic and perhaps also an economic collapse. In this video we tell you all the details about the challenge facing Japan along with many of the world's most developed countries.
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Half joking, half serious with this statement. I think the Japanese would rather die out than accept mass immigration. That leaves them with reforming their work culture and economy...
"I think the Japanese would rather die out than accept mass immigration," the funny thing is, you are abolsutely correct
@@HELLO7657 the video literally is about how the native population is not replacing the old generation, what the hell are you on about? Importing migrants leads to genocide? Are you sure you took your meds?
@@HELLO7657 Man, that's a lot of wrong in one comment.
@@YasukeKomiya l
That's exactely what I thought: they would rather finance full time reproducers (like in Black and White 2 XD) or even clonage rather that large scale immigration^^. In the last ressort...well 30% less, 70 remain. But some changes are needed: I'm always frustrated to see my country nearly inactive 8 hours a day and two days a week, however it's true that asking employees to work their s*it out 12 hours a day, or working at night time without any necessity is very counter productive for demography. "Yeah I finish my service every day at 2AM", "Wow, you are a security at a night club ?", "no I'm a moder at Nintendo", your employees being so tired that they sleep in trains and even at work doesn't mean they are serious or productive, it means that they are mentally oppress (so the exact opposite). So yeah, one of the most capitalist country in the world, will have to begin to think social or else being prepare for radical solutions.
I have 4 children. Long ago. So...I don't feel guilty about contributing to a demographic collapse. However, I retired totally broke financially. :-) And I made good money while working. The real issue is the HUGE financial burden that children ARE!
One breadwinner raising a family with four kids didn't use to be a big deal. Are children more expensive or has the spending power of a modern paycheque just dropped that much?
@@MrHarumakiSensei ye we kinda make shit money all over the world compared to just 20 or 30 years ago, I did some math and at least in Italy, where I am from, a junior manager nowadays makes as much as a non specialised labourer did back in the 90s, and from what I gather it seems we are all in the same boat to different degrees.
Wait, what?
Nikki
Capitalism
Japan definitely needs a more social and family-friendly policy.
That’s it that’s all wow ❤️🥺🥺🥺
If they were willing to change they would have done that decades ago
And less innovation with sex robots.
But we need JAV
@@farticlesofconflatulation Exactly. Robots don't really substitute human contact.
Japan: My population is declining so fast!
Bulgaria: Hold my rakia
It's probably due to emigration of Bulgarians not the actual birthrate
@@default2591 Actually It's both at the same time. Different reasons, same results in the end
As a Bulgaria I can confirm that
@@default2591 both
That's not Japan's only problem. I remember reading something a few years back that Japan has one of the lowest rates for new start-ups.
True. For all its advancement, Japan is weak in Software engineering too. Simply because they believe hardware engineering is more Superior.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 its worse in Korea because Samsung literally runs the country.
@@Pepe-dq2ib the country isn't run by Samsung... It's run by chaebols.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 and the chaebols are Samsung.... SK, LG and Hyundai are part of the family.
@@Pepe-dq2ib Exactly my point.
I lived in Japan for 17 years. When I was in university there, out of curiosity considering dismal demographic projections, I would routinely find casual ways to ask students if they ever planned on getting married or having children. The results were not encouraging; while it was a mixed bag with the young women, a majority of the young men proudly said no.
Proudly, you sure? I'm sure they wouldn't mind if women lowered the financial requirement, and someone helped them to develop social skills ect
@D. San Yeah, they were pretty confident, or at least as confident as one could be as a University student. In general, they seemed to have a sense of pride in making that decision. From my experience, while both financial matters and what they perceived to be the expectations of women were a consideration, most of them simply expressed a desire to be free of what they believed to be the constraints, responsibilities, and expectations of being a father, husband, and worker in Japanese society. There was more than anything an emphasis on the desire to do whatever they wanted whenever or however they wanted. Focusing on hobbies and friends were important. I never went further than that as it felt inappropriate to do so. To be clear, these were average people who seemed to have sufficiently developed social skills. Apparently, they just don’t want to be bogged down. I also think that a desire to be different from their parents and grandparents generations had an effect, but I never asked.
@@UltraVega924 日本は、これからどうなるか分からない不安があるから。 誰も子供を作らないんですよね,,,,,, 自分達の世代が、頑張らないといけない。🇯🇵からでした。
MGTOW herbivore men . It's happening.
@@エンクレイヴ 本当だね。未来にいろんな不安があって、子供を作る動機は少ない。
Such a shame I love Japan its culture, history and people.
I don't want to live in a world without Japan
@@bakthihapuarachchi3447 I don't want to live in a without any country the people of the world are unique in their own way.
Yes, its perfect as it is. Nobody wants japanese culture and ethnic composition watered down with Africans or Muslims.
@@BughunterX I see
What about white people or Italians and Irish?
Especially the racism, fascism and misogyny ♥️
The solution is reforming the culture and law to encourage the formation of familys as well as making it less expensive to have children. the Family unite is the foundation of a society, once it goes the building that is japan will soon follow.
Well, you can say that again. But we are talking about Japan here, is gonna take a whole lot of work not from just one generation of people to change the culture and the way of thinking. I heard that all of that extreme politeness and the manners that they are known for, comes from the Edo Period, when they were almost closed off to the rest of the world. And how they need to respect traditions as well, well let us say it's gonna take a while.
The damage is already done. You won't see any effect of pro family reforms before a full generation or even two. Japan has no choice they will need to open up for foreign workforce.
Import Confucianism into Japan? Lol
Demographic decline is a good thing though. Life in Japan is still very comfortable and there is no need for WESTERN intrusion of "family unit" ideology. Japan has had a relatively open immigration system but most people don't want to relocate there due to cultural and linguistic barriers. (The US immigration system is in fact similar to Japanese, including issuing work-visas tied to employers.) White dudes love to complain about BIPOC and other minority countries even when they're doing much better than the Western countries. But that's totally not racism, right? Ugh SMH
Even reality can't break their mentality. The culture is too engrained.
50 year ago: We need Population control because of impending Overpopulation disaster.
Today: Demographic crisis.
Damn, make your minds people.
50 years ago people were wrong. As they are now regarding global warming. We will have energy crises around the world if we keep investing into solar and wind instead of nuclear energy.
I agree. People were wrong. The population thing was misunderstood too. The problem with that comes from waste, our footprint. Not the population itself which we can handle.
This problem will just get worst over time unless actions are taken.
Both could be true simultaneously as well. If we have too much popular and do too much damage to the environment, then that's bad.
But if we lose our ability to have offspring as a species, then that's bad too.
@@SuperLusername nuclear is the future
@@SuperLusername people were wrong because they couldn't predict the green revolution, as for solar and wind, what's wrong with them? They're the future till we discover nuclear fusion
@@yashvardhanojha6796 yes it is but it very dangerous and very expensive but we can find a way around that
They are doing it to themselves. They work pointless hours without overtime pay and after that they drink themselves in to a coma. And I am talking about most evenings and not at the end of the week like most normal people
so true
They also live in capsule hotels, and if they cant take it anymore only the cliff edges know there stories.
Now it's starting to change, working hours have decreased, please check the survey on google, more working hours in America than Japan
@@ivanbudianto1962 i dont rlly think so. where did you get this info?
There is a somewhat pattern; it is the developed countries with high living standard, or at the least well off tend to have lower birthrates, while countries that are poor and underdeveloped, and sometimes under constant conflict tend to have higher birthrates.
true, birth rates in africa are exploding
@@ozmeks86 No, they're declining across the board. The fertility rate is much higher than Japan in certain countries, and closer in others, but there's not a single African country where the fertility rate is trending UP, it's simply trending down at a much slower rate.
@@darienmiller1032 African population will double by 2050 unless trends change
Well... the dirt poor can't buy condoms....or contraceptives. The poor don't want 10 kids... they just can't pay to not have them.
I would say biology/instinct also plays a part. Species that have massive infant fatality rates will have high fertility so at least a few will manage to survive. As you get richer and more comfortable the instinctive drive too reproduce will be lower than somewhere poorer or with higher risks due likely to this instinct as well. So countries that are less stable and poorer may have a greater reproduction due to the subconscious threat to life so the population will have more children so if some die there will be some that survive. But this would not be a conscious decision as people likely don't actually plan on having 4-5 children just in case half of them die, hence I am strongly suggesting it is more biological/instinctual rather than rational.
All work and no play makes jack an impotent!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Kaushal Batavia you forgot that we had unlimited population hack 😂
@Kaushal Batavia specially UP MP and Bihar. They are still at 3+ fertiltiy rate
@Kaushal Batavia Nope Only bimaru states need population control . Anymore population control in South or Maharashtra will make its people to go extinct
To everyone posting about the work hours: most people I know in Japan don't work insane hours anymore, that was like 10-20 years ago. However, many people who work in the city do end up spending close to 2 hours commuting if they choose to live in more affordable suburbs or fringe countryside areas.
The bigger issue is that salaries for young people entering the workforce is quite low and if you live in the city, it's barely enough to pay for a large apartment + family expenses. So the choice for young people is struggle at borderline poverty while raising kids, or live single/childless and use the extra money to enjoy life. It's more or less the same in the countryside because rent is cheaper but so is the average salary.
Mass immigration wouldn't fix the problem either because they're either going to face the same financial issues or irresponsibly have children that they can't support. I think the only way the government can encourage more people to start families is if there are significant tax breaks / financial support to those with children. This is hard to finance though when you already have massive debt and a shrinking workforce/taxpayer base, compounded with natural disasters and a failed Olympics...
TL;DR: I don't think we'll go extinct immediately lol, but children are increasingly going to be a luxury for older middle class people
Japan reinvented itself more than once and came back always stronger than before - I think they will adapt and will be fine. Less people on the planet is not a bad thing
It's not less people in general its less young people and more old people which would drain the economy because the old people don't work
What an idiotic statement. Less people is not bad is an elitist propaganda. Demographic has a balance and because those propaganda the balance has been disturbed.
Populations are like plants. They die back, then regrowth. Wondering about 50 years from now is pure guesswork.
Nah, demographic projections are some of the most accurate long term projections, just look at the UN population estimates for today from 1970.
Culture is a lot stronger than you are giving it credit for.
Who knows 50 years from now testube babies might be widespread
Population grows: panic. Population shrinks: panic. Media needs panic. Do you?
If your native population birth rates are below 2.1, yet your population is increasing rapidly, you're getting replaced through mass immigration.
@@f-86zoomer37 hmm that's good
@@TheAlchemist1089 ok pajeet
@@f-86zoomer37 bat eater
You spell panic wrong
Japan is losing most of its younger population by random accidents that made them incarnated into Isekai world.
So Truck-kun is to blame? TRUCK-KUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!
@@talltroll7092 Hell yeah! Damn truck-kun😅
The man with the golden smile..... Teeth so yellow it's like he has the sun in his month....🌞
You said what I was thinking! 🤦🤣
I cant focus on facts because of his yellow teeth.
Maybe patreon fans will send him some crest whitening strips.
Jesus, rude much? I mean...you aren’t wrong, but that’s no reason to point it out in front of everyone.
We will see it one way or another lol.
He should be a rapper with those 24k grills.
So you’re saying the only way a nation can survive is by becoming a completely different people by vast immigration. At least Japan will be a Japanese nation and homeland a century from now. The problem from your view is putting economic growth as the highest goal of a people’s . Which is terribly nihilistic and self-destructive in the end.
*THIS☝️
Nah force those that immigrate to integrate via learning the language which will actually keep the japanese society alive
@@Dudenier is that working well for Europe, guess what, No!!! Social instability and "insecure sentiments" (like teachers being beheaded) are plaguing the western countries of the old world. Asia should write that down and not make the same mistake, then will come they will surpass europeans
Idk, I think it makes sense, you have to admit that the major problem in that society is that the grand majority of the people there live for work and not for themself, it's a country full of stupid bureaucracy and one of the best ways to help to change that situation is just with immigrants who would show them a new perspective, that doesn't mean the country will lose its unique culture after all the majority of the people who wanna live there is because of the love of that amazing culture but to an immigrant to live there is way to hard, and here in the west we are used to having better conditions in our jobs and lives, after all, we thought for ourself more than the Japanese people. But if the Japanese don't really want immigrants I guess they just need to improve their conditions by themself but that may take some time
Giving jobs to other human beings: "NIHILISTIC", "SELF-DESTRUCTIVE". Ok boomer.
the japanese people sacrificed economic growth for economic stability. japan, for better or for worse, is one of the most stable countries in the world. how this plays out in the future is anybodys guess. japan and south korea are experiencing true deflation. china will eventually follow. when 3 of the biggest major global economies are experiencing deflation, imagine what america is actually experiencing
Agree. I also wonder how it will effect global economies these countries has a lot of invesments abroad.
US will always grow thanks to immigration.
@@Anurag-xe2jp almost every economic and financial indicator shows that that does not matter lmao
America is right now demographically younger than china which is truly amazing. Every economic model from the 21st century whether capitalism, communism, or fascism all operate off the principle that populations continue to grow. None really have an answer. The US at least has time to see what works and what does not. Japan, south korea, china, and the eurozone will all give valuable insight to the problem to the US before the situation is unsalvagle here.
@@patmccall4647 you would be correct and in any other circumstance there would be reason to be optimistic. but american policy makers have routinely looked at what has been most destructive toward our own economy and social cohesion, as well as , and COMPLETELY ignore them every time for short term gains. we look at things quarter to quarter, at least china tries to have a 100 year plan
Japan: Oh we have a huge demographic problem, how can we solve it?
World: Change your work culture to allow youth people to enjoy life and/or be more open to foreigners.
Japan: Well, it seems that the demographic collapse of my society is the only option.
Exactly correct. The old men in charge would rather die than make any change
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "ego death".
Spain: We let our youth enjoy their life by not allowing most of them to work in a stable job until they are 30.
@@ZaGaijinSmash Isn't that true for any country in the world?
@@jeungbou not always, eastern European countries were able to change after the fall of the Soviet Union, China drastically changed during the past century, heck even Arab countries have changed. Japan did change a lot after the WW2 but since the 80s the society has barely changed
More than a decade ago, Japan has been inviting immigrants with some Japanese lineage. Not enough to solve the demographic crisis.
@MusicProductionAndSheet True. Makes me wonder why they assume the economy will be radically different overnight.
@MusicProductionAndSheet exactly. Why? coz those kids live in exact same environment of job market, housing and food cost as everyone else. I saw some analysis of old weather data and they had found surprising heat wave from 1920s to 1950s, which could help explain boomer generation being so big... when food is plenty, sure people see their future and family more optimistic. From 1960s it was could phase... thats when in every country japan and europe people mass migrated to big cities.
@MusicProductionAndSheet so keep inviting immigrants. I want a source on any European population being replaced. You literally just contradicted yourself by saying that second generation birth rates fell to that of the natives.
@MusicProductionAndSheet Yeah true, turks have been in Germany since the early 60s and they still see themselves as turks, not germans, and will no doubt continue to see themselves as turks forever. Hell they have grandkids who consider themselves turks
Now that people can work from home, I expect the younger people will start moving out into the boonies for a lower cost of living.
Well that mostly apples to educated people and educated people tend to have less kids than blue collar workers. Construction workers can't work from home unless their building their own house lol.
@@fullmetaltheorist That will still cause a drop in demand and an increase in supply, thereby lowering the cost of living nation-wide.
Japan is literally giving away vacant homes to young folks willing to move out and stay there. Problem isn't the costs of a house, but access to the wages, amenities, and opportunities that are only found though the specializations cities provide.
Easy answer, no Japan won't go extinct.
It would need for every single Japanese person to no longer have kids, and kids still get born, just not at self replenishment rates, the Japanese will eventually change just because that is the nature of things when a crisis reaches a breaking point.
Will Japan loose money and GDP in the future most likely their economy will suffer heavily from a reduction in working people and tax payers, mainly the elderly generations will suffer most, and they will have to either work into their older years or simply endure it.
But the Japanese are likely to bounce back at some point in the future, with a reduction of elderly people in the country it is more likely for important positions to be filled by younger people with different mentalities, there will be a great loss of traditional arts, and other professions that were mainly carried into the modern day due to families that carried on their own traditions but larger traiditional arts wil be preserved just due to a large enough amount of people being able to teach them to the younger generations.
Future is interesting but more than that it's scary!!
Lol,no. Japan will NOT change. Ever. They're going to be prime real estate soon.
There will be no "reduction of elderly people". Because those who are working age then, will becaome elderly later and they will represent an increasingly larger percent of population with each new generation because healthcare and pension spending will be an ever growing burden on the working age population and result in even less children with every new generation.
Negative demographics is a vicious circle. It doesnt solve itself eventually.
@@SuperLusername oh, it does. It does.....
@@achintyanaithani889 No, it doesnt. It literally doesnt until:
a) Welfare state is disbanded willingly
b) Ratio of unproductive to productive people in a society causes the welfare state to collapse.
I dont regard either of those as "solving itself out eventually"
The problems are simple. Too much work, too little leisure time. Men are happy to 'take care' of themselves downstairs while watching anime, rather than finding a woman. Too much societal pressure to get married and have children. Men and women are increasingly taught to distrust, and even hate each other, rather than see each other as partners. Men think women have unrealistic financial expectations, while women's expectations are constantly being raised by social media. Women don't really need men any more for financial support, and can have careers of their own, which leads into the next problem: delaying child birth until it's often too late to have a child. The cost of having children is enormous, and only getting worse.
The solution? There is none. It requires radical change on a society based level.
I feel the same way, its only after the collapse that we're going to learn our lesson. All of the ideologies of today, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism etc. are all utterly materialistic. Is it any wonder materialism leads to the end of populations?
I love being young because I wanna see how it all plays out x
Enjoy the decline. I hope you are intelligent enough to prepare.
Humanity is declining and multiple wars are happening
Soon you will be old and confused as to where the time went.
I admire your curiosity, and hope your [implied] optimism is warranted.
I am 66. I am curious, very curious, about the future, but I am also VERY glad I am not young. I think the younger generations, and perhaps even my own, are going to experience catastrophe on a scale not seen by humanity since the Black Death devastated the Old World.
It may come by war, by pandemic, by sudden climate change/drought/famine, by AI, by solar flare/grid failure, by sudden economic collapse...or the slow motion collapse of population decline in the developed world.
But I suspect it is coming.
Good luck! Truly. I do think a better future is on the other side of the collapse I suspect is coming. But it's likely to take generations to reach it.
Why would immigration help? Why would foreigners not be affected by whatever has decreased Japanese birthrates?
It's indeed true, migration only works as a temporary and all in need solution. Taking the exemples from the USA and Europe, as soon the migrants indeed integrate they begin to share the same cultural and economical thinking and problems that lead to low fertility in the first place.
It would work if the foreigners weren't expected to integrate into the society, and instead impose their own culture and customs on Japan. But that's genocidal, why would a nation and people do that to themselves?
Instead it's foreigners encouraging them to do so, what a surprise.
Then you keep bring in more immigrants generation after generation until the supply runs out.
You can't just tell people to have kids lol No one gives a shit either it's declining or increasing. Imo having a Kid is freaking Expensive this days mate.
Exactly, it just pushes the issue down a generation. Even countries with pro-friendly immigration policies are going to face it someday.
When you are going to make a video on Afghanistan?
That country has been cursed ever since it was invaded by british colonialism, if Britain had left Afghanistan alone it would not be the fractured powder keg it has been for so long
Forget the Americans, forget the Soviets, its the British who started Afghanistans plague of problems 😔😕
Actually, I blame the sasanian, the Seleceuid, and the Achaemenid Empires. 😋
@@리주민 Though true, that is ancient history 2 of those were before Islam existed.
Its more recent history that took a greater toll, when the British left they drew lines establishing borders, completely disregarding ethnic groups which let chaos ensue!
@@EAcapuccino
I did omit the later caliphates and emirates. Sorry. I do get you for the more modern British. I wonder how Afghanistan would fair if it were still Buddhist...
please, we still need manga, anime, video game
I am a former animator. The Japanese animation industry is in a very critical situation. This is serious.
@@ひなちゃん-y2g please married. have a lot of childs, the world need japanese people
Channel needs to change name for VisualPoliTeeth.
Japan projected to have a population of 80 million decades from now.
Visualpolitik: Is Japan getting extinct?
How can they? Look at those babies , they're adorable!!!
? Babies are tough to care for
money
Cause they’re expensive and stressful?
I would consider working in Japan if they didn't treat me like a slave, for now just a vacation to Japan is enough
People always say that Japan is good if you're a tourist, but horrible for immigrants
Especially the way a lot of Japanese people are extremely xenophobic, even to ethnically Japanese people who weren't born and raised in Japan
Young generation in japan, they have implemented work-life balance.
@@mike.n.n.7723 Oh it's totally not true, Japanese people also want to make friends with foreigners
@@ivanbudianto1962 Make friends yes. Make families no, at least if they want to keep their identity as authentically "Japanese".
Japan, South Korea, China, the three major countries in East Asia, all have a very competitive social environment, and the huge pressure on young people has forced many of them to give up the idea of marriage and childbirth.
I'm not sure why he continues to compare Japan to Spain? The two countries are like apples and oranges. Better to compare Japan to Germany, Immigration-wise at least. Spain approaches immigration more like The UK or France do, by largely drawing from its former imperial possessions for immigration. Spain can indefinitely welcome immigrants from 20 different Spanish-speaking countries in the new world with relatively little cultural disruption. Japan cannot do this.
Lol
Most immigrants to Spain are Europeans though, mainly Romanians, Britons and French.
@@MrDude826 Those are seasonal property owners or at the most permanent residents. I wouldn't define them as immigrants. Please look again at the numbers. Romanians have already well tapped out their entire working age population. They are here in Italy too. But their wave has already past.
The last thing japan needs is a mass influx of weebs
As a weeb I agree. And generally Japan doesn't need any kind of immigration. It needs to change its toxic work environment and culture
@Antonio FG In that context it is fine of course. But it must not be in a massive scale. If people enter a country they love, are ready to work hard for that country and contribute to it, that's great
@Antonio FG haha soo.. typical
@@rifqimujahid4907 they don’t like Arabs or African immigrants In Japan yet are fine with Europeans and westerners there lmao the hypocrisy
@@comradekenobi6908 hows it hypocritical?
It's not a bug ... it's a feature.
Grant ... you've posited that a declining population is a serious problem which needs to be addressed. BUT does it? With 7.5 billion humans on this planet, a 3 fold increase in my lifetime, I would argue that the NUMBER ONE problem that humanity needs to solve ... is overpopulation. Virtually all other problems including: climate change, political unrest, destruction of the oceans, the current pandemic etc., follow directly from, or are exacerbated by ... this.
Perhaps we should see Japan as a shining example of what we all need to do, for the sake of our very survival. What we ought to do now, is find ways to continue this trend, universally and as painlessly as possible.
Japan roughly the size of Norway (5 million), has over 120 million people. All we hear is that we need to reduce our carbon footprint. What is wrong with rapid population decline. Japan with only 20 million would be an interesting prospect. Japan will survive and might actually be an interesting place to visit. Instinct is a little alarmist. It would be a huge mistake to increase immigration just to stabilize population decline. Japan should continue its current policy and address how to address problems that occur with aging populations. Plan on shutting towns and converting them agricultural use or revert to nature. May allow Japan to become agriculturally independent in the future.
Norway is resource rich bt japan is not.Its economy is based on automobile and other high tech manufactoring sectors,all these economic models requires people bt norway and saudi's can just make more money by pumping more oil
looking chart, 1950s Japan had 50M+, which seems good figure, still a lot for that land area, but not too bad in world. 20M would make it paradise, prob close to being sufficient and not too much reliant on importing everything necessary from abroad.
@@idontusecryptocurrency5870 ofc but it has shifted a lot in 100 years.... almost to 1% workforce due to automation. 1000 people can do a lot nowadays. Some industries are not as easy, but clothing is becoming fully automated soon, for cheaper goods like socks and t-shirts.
High tech is different, coz need lots of skilled ppl, as one person mental capacity is limited in super complex fields, no matter how einstein one person is. But also that can be managed better by roadmap of longer term with smaller team.
@@effexon No the population of Japan in 1950 83 million and 93 million by 1960. Population peaked at 128.5 million in 2009. now it is only 2 million off that. I lived there for most of the 2000s. Once you leave the couple very large cities there is nothing but rugged forest covered mountains.
Funny coming from a norwegian. You guys literally live of your oil reserves. Dont dare dictate what other countries should do or not do.
Can you do the video about the situation in Eastern Europe that is similar to this one?
It is mostly because of emigration to Western Europe and is not similar to Japan.
P.S. Serbia stronk
this is a good one
In Poland we have similar problems (1.4 child per woman), but we are still in the beginning of negative trend. In 1982 we had demographic boom, but after the fall of Communism in 89 the situation changed drastically. In 2004 Poland joined EU, and 1.5 -2 million young ppl emigrated west. After 2014 and war on Ukrainie we had imigrants from Ukrainie, but it didnt change the overall trend (anyway... Ukrainians also don't have children). In 2015 the gov introduced social money for parents: 500 PLN (130 USD) per child. This increased the fertility from 1.4 to ... 1.5 LOL.
Those 'boomers' from 82 and around hardly have children and are already 39 years old. The situation looks hopeless.
@@AmirSatt priviet :)
@@morawiecki5916 Dzień dobry. This comment section now officially belongs to the slav gang
Japan has a SHIT TON of issues not mentioned in this video,, the future is very dark.
Speaking about Japan like this is a joke compared to what Portugal is going through
Do enlightening me
It's both similar, Japan's population is much older though percentage wise though
Why are his teeth so yellow ?
Probably cigarette, it seams people are bother by that ? your comment is not the first on this matter.
@@dasso7547 Well - presentation is everything.
fulltime employment should be restricted to 37 hours working week max, and 30 hours working week for mothers
Can you imagine the children with so many granny's and grandpy's? They would be so well cared for! As far as I know that is the chinese tradition for the grandparents to take care of the grandchildrenwhile the parents work. Of course these old traditions all fall apart with the rise of urbanism and individualism. Perhaps younger folks will move out of Tokyo and back to their mountain homesteads where their families live. Life will slow down and Children will feel much better about incarnating into that more peaceful life
they wont move out of urban centers and it is preferable they dont more concentrated urban areas= more economic growth
An old WWI phrase-
How ya gonna keep em down on the farm, now that they've seen Paris..
It's Japan, there's always cartoon kids!
I just realized that Japan pioneered the lying flat movement.
I'll pray for Japan to be okay.
G7 countries are experiencing a population decrease which is causing concerns due a diminishing work force. Africa is expected to double its population by 2050 which is causing concern due to lack of job opportunities. Seems like the problems sort themselves out. But ...... humans are tribal, and the 0.6% of gene causing "diversity" might be a problem most likely.
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Well the japanese are smart and creative so i'm sure they'll be able to sort this out. What i'm more concerned about is the Chinese.
Remember if a TFR rate of 1.4 in Japan is enough to ask if a country is going extinct. Then imagine what the chinese are dealing with.
Their TFR rate is 1.0 It's gonna be an absolute catastrophe
China has 1.62 and Japan is 1.42, and China recently gaining slight pace due to the lifting of the 2 child policy to 3 child policy.
I can't believe anyone would bring a kid into the hell that is living in ccp china. It's the only power those people have at all, stop making babies n watch the ccp go broke n then take your damn country back
@@default2591 after census 2020 China tfr is 1.3. and that ia by ccp number. The real tfr is posibly lower
@@default2591 And you believed them?
Look numbers given by the party are about as accurate as a drunkard trying to hit bullseye at darts. That being very little. I doubt that a country which until recently only allowed a family to have a single child has a TFR of 1.6
@Jinx Vanderz Fortunately, America has lots of immigrants that want to live here, so even if we don't have kids, someone here will have them, so we can carry on.
few decades ago - work so hard that your country gets recognition
present - work so hard that your country goes into extinction
I know that if Japan opened it's doors properly, and offered incentives to work there, there would be a long line of people ready to go.
No thanks
@Skelly Skeleton are you talking about the social cohesion of a society that is dying?
@@fen4554 no even Japanese people are leaving Japan sorry but you gotta accept reality Japan is a falling country, the economy hasnt grown in 20 years the population is decreasing and the poverty in Japan has been rising since 2014 if you look at the stats Japan is really a slow dying country and that's not my opinion that is just fact's
westerners are good at criticising Japan's ways, but in the end, their ways work out. They see long-term.
*Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without having to believe that there are, fairies at the bottom of it too.*
Well, Victor Orban might be right.
In any case, he is not left.
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@@Matt-bp5vy And your comment is much less useful, but thanks for pointing out the obvious.
They should impose heavier tax rates to residents not married and without a child significantly in the tier 1 cities and significantly lighten the tax rate for all residents in Japan after the second child, at the same time providing incentives for the child and the parents at the same time which raises gradually and cap at 4th child, this will heavily increase the population rate of procreation
WOW! You are so smart! Now you have created single, broke people who work all day and can't afford to go out and date!
They better not go extinct. If Square Enix disappears I'll have to find real hobbies. And think of how many weeaboos will commit seppukku if the land of Anime falls.
Why do Western media focus so much on the problems in other people's country but ignore the cries from their own people?
Every country is facing similar hell you know
Other countries have immigrants coming e.g Germany abs Canada
Japan really needs to adopt the You Work to Live mentality
South Korea is the no1 dying country. and Germany, Italy, Belgium and Scandinavian countries are also getting worse.
yes south korea is worse than japan
Scandinavian birth rate is pretty stable, it's the Mediterranean and Eastern European countries that have a low birth rate.
@@MrDude826 yea but its also going down, look at finalnd
Thank you for the video. I would be very interested in the environmental implications of a population decline though: with that enormous population on such a tiny stretch of land, the ecological pressure is undoubtedly horrendous !
Can't this trend be seen as a positive long term strategy for a more sustainable country ?
Maybe the Japanese corporations should review, approach, and reform work regulations and social policies. There are many solutions that are family-friendly to workers. Some of such are the creation of kindergarten areas of workers' offspring which may be very helpful. Also, baby sitting and breastfeeding rooms for lactating mothers. All these solutions can be incorporated in a near central department of the working place. Social care solutions to workers' welfare are there. Corporations' managers just have to decide them. All in all, it is a good investment that ensures productivity, inclusiveness, and protection of demographic sustainability.
It seems like a pretty sweet place to live off the grid. The entire town dies and you move in uncontested!
Japan here I come 😆
Japan is even offering free houses to those younger folks willing to move and stay there. Problem is it's not strictly having a roof over their head, but more fundamental flaws in the economy especially for those same young adults seeking to establish a livelihood they can predict will carry them through potential parenthood and retirement.
No more Japan means no more anime, I see this as an absolute win.
But no more anime then no more *entai and no more loli and shota 😭 noo
Not so long ago people were talking about a different population crisis. Howe will we feed the worlds population!? I suspect that the answer to Japan's problems is to leave them to the good sense of individual people and keep governments out of it.
It's societal problems creating this situation on people.
wish India becomes like japan as mentioned where being single and alone is appreciated and having family is frowned. Also if Indians like japanese focus more on professional work it would be very cool and it would be like a tight slap to indian society. Also if it becomes like ja[an population will shrink and it will be really good for india. Dear Indian women and men please Work like japanese rather than starting family.
It woud be great to have those statistics on screen while the person on screen keeps talking so we can memorize them better. Love your channel btw!
South Korea has one of the highest population density and longest work hours per year. Seoul is 3 times more crowed than Tokyo and 8 times of New York. No wonder so low fertility rate. And it is good thing for overcrowded SK. SK is as big as Iceland but but has 160 times population, or little bigger than Hokkaido, Japan but has 10 times population. More than that, Korean Peninsular is mountainous land with very little arable flat land like Swiss (Area: 1/3 of SK, pop.: 8.5M 1/6 of SK). It is unsustainable situation. SK can hardly survive to next century without serious population reduction like shedding half of its current 50 millions.
I can confirm... how can you make a baby when the walls are so thin in a country where face is everything? or have to go to an expensive motel to do your intimate business... but for the second part I totally disagree. Most parts of South Korea is completely deserted and could be inhabited by people giving space for citizens to live and breathe. Cities like Daejeon or Daegu are large and not so crowded.
After seeing Josh's cute little face, I feel robbed. I love Grant's reporting too but he's just not the cuteness that is Josh. So, in protest I'm only going to watch this video once. Well, twice as I've watched it once typing this and that's it, I am booking no reposts. Lol Great video guys. Keep up the good work.
From a material and environmental perspective, there are too damn many people in the world. We should not prioritize economy over a reasonable world population. Midway through the century, the world as a whole will start declining in total population anyways, so the perspective of this video of “what’s causing this” rather than “what do we do now that it is like this” doesn’t help anyone. Japan losing 30% of its inhabitants might scare economists, but it also means that there’s more Japan to go around per person, and hopefully less of Japan being harvested. This population decline should absolutely not be seen as an inherently bad thing, and I hope the mindset as a whole changes.
With that being said, some of the actual reasons for population decline in Japan is pretty depressing, most of all overworking.
I agree with you to an extent. But that would only really work when all populations are shrinking at the same rate. Which sadly isn't the case. Just look at Africa
Most agree but without kids, who will pay for your retirement benefits? You can ignore the issue like Greece did and watch your country implode like Greece did. Pretty clear people won't accept a far reduced standard of living in their old age. And pretty clear kids won't work like slaves to support the retirees high benefits.
@@RS-ls7mm for sure, that's the number 1 issue to address. But I don't think the solution is to pump out more babies. What that effectively does is delay the problem rather than change some structures to enable the senior citizens to get by more reliably. That's why I'm not too concerned about the population changes in Germany as they have the institutions to take care of their senior. They'll be a less wealthy country but that's to be expected when your population declines, nothing wrong eith that. However China for example will have serious issues if there non-existent welfare remains as is
Guessing we should visit Japan and South Korea before only robots and elderly people are left.
It’s an Asian problem, in 20 years this will happen also in China. But this match with the big housing bubble of the country
This wouldn't be surprising. They're literally working themselves to extinction. Extreme work culture, and and inhospitable social environment to properly raise a proper family is a recipe for disaster.
As sad as it is to say, they brought it upon themselves. And the scary thing is that the US is following suit because we're having a huge Millennial baby bust.
Who gives a shit if countries population decreases, it doesnt matter if in the future Japan has 20 million citizen or 200 million citizen.
Japan's birthrate hit its nadir in 2005@ 1.25 children for birthgiving aged females. In the past 2 decades that has levelled off to between 1.43~1.47. Japanese families are still having children, just not 3~5 like they did a generation ago, which is prudent considering AI and mass-automation will have made 50% of current jobs obsolete within the next 25 years.
in the 70's Declining population would've been seen as good thing, mostly the way the economy is structured needs to be changed rather than changing the people itself or having population replacement, I mean immigration does not increase the number of Japanese people anyway, it might increase people with Japanese citizenship and mixed people, but this bring new problems, like identity politics, you see it everywhere where one group tries to one up the other, I think once the population reaches a certain value, the economics would have no choice but to adapt to the demographics rather than the demography having to adapt to the economy, who knows what will happen.
Japan is not the west They are omogenus not mix race like the west society
It would be interesting to know the potential impact of robotics and AI development to Japan amid the population decline.
oh, no yellow teeth
Demographic crisis: omae wa mou shindeiru
Japanese nation: NANI?!
Korea and Japan have to start paying couples to have kids, provide paid mandatory child leave and offer free day care so the women can stay in the work force.
The more kids they have, the more they get paid, It's not rocket science. Immigration in the amounts needed to turn things around will be difficult for both SK and Japan due the culture and probably a tough sell politically.
In a perfect world, yes ur right it's like saying "I wish we had wars with zero deaths" sounds nice but wishful thinking
@@Infamous41 yep, but for Japan this is a national security issue if they don't want to be vassals of the CCP by 2040.
@@SL-jn8cz Yes but Japan and the UK are not the same. You are correct that this policy has failed in countries with liberal immigration policies like Denmark and the UK.
Japan is heavily indebted and doesn't have the money to pay people to have kids. Paying people to have kids has never worked anywhere
@@millevenon5853 what's your solution then? 40% elderly population can't work financially either.
It would be a great loss. Japan 🇯🇵🗾 😢.
Good riddance.
Eventually a new balance will occur. Drop on population will bring drop in property costs and labor shortage will push wages up to help affordability.
Maybe 80 million is an easier population to maintain.
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Hi! Really interesting video, I just have a qualm with it.
Whenever you're talking numbers, especially during comparisons, could you add a visual with a graph. You said something about Japan's pensions compared to Spain's pensions and I heard something about some thousands and a hundred something and it was a bit too fast to register on the first hearing. Would have been a lot easier to understand the comparison with a graph accompanying it.
the population mushroomed in the 40's...
I understand the reason for Japan's immigration policy I won't say why tho.
More ads than actual content on this video.
Switzerland has 25% foreigners and about additional 5% of Swiss with migration background.
How is this a problem? Japan is overpopulated (like most of the world), besides: it means less pollution and an infinite host of beneficial environmental impacts. Are you nuts?
Turkey has had 5.000.000 refugees. Japan can take some of them as a solution to this problem.
You should invest in a toothbrush.
This guy needs to get some teeth whitening.
As compared to area and population, Japan is over populated, compared to other developed countries. Let alone Canada and USA, most European countries are less populated per square Km than Japan. So sky is not going to fall if few million population is decreased. Robât, computer and other technology will reduce need for labour and also can make older people able to work. Now the island nation is too congested, with less population they can enjoy bigger houses more space for recreation and batter quality of life. But they should start having at least two children every couple.
The problem is that there aren't enough young people to support the massive demands of the aged. Old people expect LOTS of benefits. And we're not talking a few million here, more like half the current population with no end in sight.
@@lamalien2276 Japanese people are comparatively pretty active and healthy in old age, there retirement age is 70. Moreover most of the works are done with machines that need less physical strength. There is automation in factories. They are giving work visas to the young people from developing countries, that fills the gap. When I was in Japan, I saw an 80 year man who was surprisingly so healthy that he was running a cow farm alone, doing everything with machines, also growing feed for cows. And in his spare time he used to do welding works for others too. 😁
Still can’t believe that Governments are shocked that this will happen in countries that are expensive to live in.
This issue would be easy to fix honestly, the government just needs to put the needs and future of the country before the interests of few fat cats
What is not mentioned in the video is that culturally the Japanese have huge "respect" for their elders to the extent that they are not allowed to criticize them. This the core of the problem and one which they must address. Then, and only then, can their work ethics be addressed. Finally ALL families must be given substantial amounts of money to have more children. This must be guaranteed and very long lasting. Once these measures are implemented the demographic problems would disappear... in twenty years.
The Japanese do not want immigration and that is their choice, they probably loose out by not having positive cultural input, but gain by not having negative cultural input which they could never get rid of and also gain by having a more cohesive and monolithic society.
Good luck Japan.
@@ivancho5854 Paying people to have children is ridiculous, and will trigger lots of opposition, because who wants to be burdened with paying more money for other people's families. Things will change when people want to have children, and welfare will not change this.
@triplewitching Yes, indeed it is ridiculous! How would you suggest fixing their demographic nightmare, because for the last three decades this problem has only been getting worse.
@@ivancho5854 Well for one I would reduced maximum alloud working hours to something like 50 per week and introduce heavily fines for any corporation that try to break it, made parents leaving mandatory by law with full pay for 2 weeks and maybe partial pay for another week or 2 for dads and help out with childcare for parents who do work, this would definitely help out
@@adi6293 It would be a great start. For the life of me, I can't understand why the Japanese don't do something like this. It's so obvious that even we can come up with solutions! 🤣
All the best mate.
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1:14 It's such a relief to skip past down-your-throat wasted bandwidth.
3:19 and again.
The government needs to encourage people to have kids, pay them if you must.
I do agree that japan urgently needs to change its workculture, but couldn't the reduction in population also be good thing from a purely human and invironmental standpoint? I mean it's probably never gonna happen due to lack of political will, but if Japan were to rethink its pension model and invest in future proof sectors such as renewable energies, couldn't it become a model of demographic aging and the resulting reduction in population being a good thing?