Japan ‘on the brink’ over falling birth rate says PM - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2023
- Japan's prime minister says his country is on the brink of not being able to function as a society because of its falling birth rate.
Fumio Kishida said it was a case of "now or never." Japan - a population of 125 million - is estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 births last year. In the 1970s, that figure was more than two million.
Birth rates are slowing in many countries, including Japan's neighbours.
But the issue is particularly acute in Japan as life expectancy has risen in recent decades, meaning there are a growing number of older people, and a declining numbers of workers to support them.
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Nobody will want to have children if their surroundings are filled with the culture of overworking, expensiveness, unstable political situation, and huge stress.
@@user-sr8xp2jc1i long life isn't a problem.
I have chickens. The hens don't lay eggs when they're super stressed out from environmental changes, and no eggs the one time when my birds grew up and I found I had three roosters, and they fighting each other all the time. Humans are more complex than chickens, of course, but I assume that on the whole, there are similar dynamics at play.
That's a lame statement
Stressed animals do not breed
@@Pedant_Patrol higher life-expentency is a major problem. Their pensions need to be paid by younger people's tax money. Why else do you think retirement age across most developed countries are raising all the time over the past decade?
It's not just in Japan, here in the US everyone I know is choosing not to have kids because of the extreme cost of having them. Ain't nobody got time for that.
the sad thing about that is how those decisions will ultimately destroy many economies
I feel like young ppl in general are more aware of how expensive and difficult it is to raise a child and be a decent parent and how dark and unstable the world is. also this generation are more stressed and depressed than previous ones.
@@mapuangames5847 i thought that too until I went to a post secondary school and almost all the the women under 25 had kids.
@@mapuangames5847While western countries but also including Korea, Japan, China are having less children meanwhile in Africa people are having tons of children! This is very much gonna affect the future but who knows how.
@@cherry1101 Incoming massive transfers of populations, either encouraged (like in Canada) or not (like in Europe)
Honestly, having children in this tough world is difficult. I really understand why the Japanese are reluctant to have kids.
I slightly disagree with what you're saying. The world has always been difficult. Are you saying you're having a more difficult life than your parents or your grandparents? I'm sure you'd get a good smacking if you say that to them lol. The problem is that news are getting way more accessible and 24/7 on our devices, rather than having to sit down for the 10 o'clock news back in the days; and news are tend to be terrible/bad, which makes you feel that the world is more of a tough/terrible/scary place than it really is.
it has never been easier for humanity than it is today, higher life expectancy , technology , medicine , human rights , its all higher than at any other point in history , “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” people will turn the corner , hardship forces it
@@purrnyan8108 l live in a third world country, so yes its very difficult from where I am standing. Our Healthcare system and economic opportunities are not as good as those found in Japan and rich nations.
Life is very hard in 3rd world countries
@@abrahamsneo7783 so do I, it is called Britain.
Lol it’s tough in the west because we are taxed to death and can’t afford homes at young ages. You have no idea. We cannot compare.
Not forcing someone into this shitstormy clowniverse can be an act of love
100%
Comments like that won't make anything better.
@@dr.livesey7595 It is a comment not an action?
Can one comment make things better?
@@nah131 No but words create reality. If you always talk about how bad everything is all you do is demoralizing everyone. You won't Help anyone by making them even more depressed.
@@dr.livesey7595 But it is getting bad. If you deny it then nothing will change.
The Japanese government will complain about this issue, but will never do anything of real effect to fix it
Because nothing works 🤔
The solution is mass third-world immigration. Are you stupid or something?
@@Nakla allow migration and stop isolationist views I’ve been japan a few times and it’s a beautiful country but I wouldn’t live there simply because they do not want anyone but Japanese there I wasn’t allowed in certain shops and restaurants it was extremely hard to look for even an apart where they would accept a foreigner I didn’t even look at houses and overall your treated as an outsider despite the fact my Japanese is quite good and I have a certain understanding of their cultural practices
@Snow TFL if someone takes the time and effort to learn Japanese and they can contribute to the economy, there is no good reason not to let them settle in the country. It's also shocking that there are restaurants and shops that foreigners aren't permitted in! I'm sure Japanese people would be horrified if they faced such xenophobia in Europe or America.
@@snowtfl5617 they want to preserve their culture and ethics and nothing wrong with that. I am pretty sure they don't want Japan to become like USA where people from all over world come and do whatever they want xD.
Cost of living forces two ppl to work. Thus forth ladies do not have time too have children as before 💡
Every developed country has a high cost of living. Which one doesn't?
@@civilengineer3349 hence falling birthrates across the board
@@civilengineer3349 the point is that it's cruel to have kids and fail to take care of their needs properly. Children are expensive
@@abrahamsneo7783 Not with my grandparents' generation lol They just keep popping them out and worry about the rest later. That's why we've so many boomers that we have to take care of now that they're retiring.
@@abrahamsneo7783 its cruel to let them suffer when the population collapses , you aint seen nothing yet
unless your income can support it, it's not worth it
Spoken like a true balchelor lol 👍
Totally agree. It's cruel to have kids and fail to support them
Do you have kids?
Agree! No sense in having children, we can’t afford them. You slave working long hours to support children with no quality time to be present when you’re with your them .. not to mention forget your relationship with your spouse …
No everyone should have kids
Having talked to quite a few Japanese 2017 in several towns, I know why they have a low birth rate. They have to work too much. Several said that they hadn't seen their grandparents for a long time because they would need two days off to do so and had to work every Saturday.
it is. I live in Japan, but everyone close to me wants to leave Japan. But Japan is easy to live in
@@si----ta do you not think japans treatment of foreigners needs to change to help support the population Japan needs I mean lots of places in japan refuse to serve foreigners we can’t but certain houses and apartments and overall treated like outsiders I realise Japan has isolationist views that stem from a very rigid culture which foreigners regularly don’t follow due to lack of understanding but do you think this needs to changed to a certain degree to allow more migration into Japan
@@snowtfl5617 I see a fellow expat here ;)
@@snowtfl5617 mmmm. I wouldn’t say lack of understanding. The Japanese understand very well what bringing in foreigners will do and it’s not all positive. While yes Japan really needs to clean up its strict views, bringing in foreigners that want to bring their way of life would potentially be disastrous for all parties involved. I don’t mind bringing in clean proper well mannered sophisticates to strengthen Japan but…well, you’ve seen the kinda people that are breaking into America lol you want them to bum around Japan and make it harder than it already is. Japanese girls want to build a relationship, not get snatched up in the night…
@@snowtfl5617 even with that in mind, what is it going to change?
Most people that will move in are from SE asia or western countries.. were the birthrates are shit as well, not as bad as japan's or any other asian country for that matter, but letting immigrants in won't change anything...
except if you are talking about places in the world where the birthrates are super high, often from places with drastically different views on morality and belief systems.
I am Japanese in my twenties. Most of my friends in school had a sibling and only child was rare (one or two in a classroom). It is inconsiderable to have children without marriage other than the guy run away. That means, most of marriage couples have two or three children. I think the main reason of low birth rate could be accounted for by the traditional value that you have to marry to have children, yet not many men are earning enough money although many women are actually willing to be a stay-home mom, which makes it difficult to get married for both gender.
It's because your society decided to copy the foolish western ideology of "equality" between the sexes, now you're finding out that "equality" is a myth, just think about, all those women that are working and also married to working man are actually taking salaries or higher wages away from unemployed or underpaid men which leads to other young women not finding high earning husbands to marry.
@@wamnicho Exactly. I think it is good that talented women can use their ability and earn good. The problem is that most of women regardless of their income don't accept low waged men and most of men don't accept better paid women than him as a partner. It is very rare that men do the household chore even your wife earns better.
The problem with America. They have lost ALL values.!! Totally immoral and yes I’m One of the last Mohicans in the good old USA that continues to carry values. Kudos to your country and ppl 💯
間違いない!!!ありがとう。
@@sassan7278 Yes and thats because goverments made women enter the Work force. Now the wages dropped for everyone and its almost not possible to Feed a Family with only one income. Esspecially Not If You also want a House, a Car and vacation once a year and Go to the Restaurant.
If a nation cannot create a path for the average woman to feel satisfied with her life prior to age 30, birthrates will fall.
Affordable housing, affordable tuition, healthy work/life balance, making children affordable at the median income = more people will opt to have kids.
Currently couples work to get their lives in order, and that generally happens between age 30 and 40. Unfortunately many do not feel stable in their lives until their biological clock has nearly expired.
It's not that...everything is just toonmuch nowadays, even rent is horribly expensive, if the govt doesn't change this, we're all just gonna give up
A woman exists to raise families. That is what they are equipped for.
men struggle too
@@dansmith1661 Women will not have children without husbands. And some husbands abuse women, so women avoid marriage.
@@dansmith1661 men like you are the reason i refuse to reproduce
I'm tired of people beleagering the "low birth rate" instead of focusing on the quality of life people have. It is irresponsible to have kids you can't adequately care for. And it's not just women who don't want kids what about the men who don't want kids either. Why is this such a freaking one sided convo? smh
Because economies are built to be a certain size and if there is decline it always enters into a death spiral of economic uncompetitiveness.
Couldn't agree more. They just want cheap labour and don't give a shlt about people's quality of life. The smaller the labour pool, the higher the wages... but that wouldn't please the people at the top.
exactly.
You would think they can legislate their way out of this problem. Paid maternity and paternity pay, laws protecting mothers at the workplace,free pre-school, boys and girls parenting classes, free college for qualified candidates, free medical, child tax credits are some things to try.
They don't even want to date, let alone marry or have kids. The only way the government gets out of this is to run their own baby factories.
I assure you they have tried most of the things you've mentioned
This is what happens in an open liberal democracy.
@@winstonwolf5706 you can always move to Dubai where there are no taxes.
Free college? You mean RUclips?
If countries around the world want women to have children, they need to incentivize it. Paid leave for all guardians, tax deductions, decreasing cost of education and child care, etc. I hope this continues around the world so that countries realize that without the sacrifice and dedication of mostly mothers, countries don't have a population, workforce, soldiers, etc.
Countries also need to ban workplaces from considering long time gaps between jobs as a factor in hiring someone. Many women would take time off their careers to have a family if they knew they could return to their careers after the kids grow up.
Who’s gonna pay all that? You do realize, a dwindling population also affects women too right, who will take care of all those old childless women when they can no longer work if there’s no workforce, it’s like sitting on the titanic and refusing to do something out of spite like as if the ocean will spare you when the ship sinks
Even if we solve the issue and more women do start having children, we still have the issue of fatherlessness.
Yeah you are right. You can't blame the population if you are not endorossing and helping families with a stable income when one of them takes care of the children
Children used to be a family asset back when you could make them work the land. Now they are a risky investment.
They are your legacy, when you’re dust they will continue.
@@mckinneyman4325 Continue to dust.
@@mckinneyman4325 Who cares about legacy unless your royality?
@@mckinneyman4325 whats the point? Its just an ancient instinct that brings guaranteed death for everyone
@@mckinneyman4325 legacy is defined by your work, even animals have children. Nobody remembers the parents of historical figures. Children are more about fostering your own family and raising a new life.
What's funny is that Japan has the highest birthrate in east asia now at 1.3 fertility rate
You not heard of the term, boomers? Most developed countries across the world is suffering from this phenomenon.
from your made up source. pathetic
@@AAAAAA-tj1nq Directly from the PRB's 2022 world population data sheet. My condolences on your ignorance.
@@purrnyan8108 its not that they had a lot of kids back then , they had enough to maintain a population , its the decline in birth rate today that is the problem , the boomer talk distracts you from the source of the problem
@@purrnyan8108 it will also get worse and very quickly , african and middle eastern birth rates have strarted to fall , then who do we call on to do the jobs?
Kishida wants to take urgent measures to increase the country's birth rate. The Japanese Government apparently spends less money on children than in other countries. However, he will use this as an excuse to raise taxes. He just want to raise tax. This is particularly acute. He will slow down the Japanese economy. As a result, his policies will slow down the birth rate.
What urgent measures? lol As if they can do anything faster than a snail pace while struggling along between 2 lanes of salt.
true
What are you talking about? The Japanese government already gives lots of financial subsidies and incentives for people who have children. They're not trying to use this as some way to scam people via taxes.
Japan is the most heavily indebted developed country by a considerable distance (a fact too many members of the public seem blissfully unaware of) so politicians can hardly be blamed for wishing to increase tax revenue.
raising taxes is on its own not indicative for a slowdown of the economy. other factors need to add to that
What the Japanese woman said applies to many countries. The difference is the East Asia working culture such as overwork
Notice they blamed men and never focused on the problems Japanese men face.
That applies to many countries as well.
Japan is a country where meetings on childcare support for the younger generation and measures to combat the declining birth rate are still held with only a few dozen older men.
Men are always blamed
@@user-bc1dv8jj6d no if Japan was Japanese this will not be an issue. The root of it starts there.
childcare support and marriage is built in the traditional Japanese culture
@@cinnamonstar808 Traditional Japanese families and child-rearing practices almost disappeared after the war. Nowadays, dubious cults with their 'traditional family image' are in thrall to the ruling party and politicians, trying to preserve the old patriarchal system.
This is a global problem. Governments need to stop punishing young people who choose to have children. There should be incentives for women having children before they're 30. Most young people would love to have children but can't because of financial reasons, not greed.
nope.. this is not a "𝓌𝑒 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓈" thing. when it glory.. and winning. I hear specific names call, specific regions called. when its problems = i hear "global".
keep all your W's and keep all of your L's.
0% brown and black races are dealing with this. WE ARE STAYING 🌍🌎🌏 so see you next century... or maybe not
Having children after 30 comes with its own risks. The younger the woman (within reason) the better off she and her baby is.
@Wang Lin The question is what is a good environment? I live in Germany. We have very Low crime, an extremly good working social system etc. And still we have the lowest birth rate in Europe If you Count Out Migration. And also the Immigrants adopt to that next Generation. Nobody knows what the hell is wrong with women nowadays. I blame the media for constantly influecing people with Horror Future Outlooks which makes people depressiv longterm and think the world is collapsing soon. It makes me so sad this modern world
@Wang Lin Yes i think thats the best for any Family. You See this a lot Here in Germany. As soon as people start families they start leaving the City. Sadly the goverment makes it Harder to live in rural areas because they want to urbanize everything. No doctors in rural areas, No teachers, no ATMs and everything is centralizing more and more toward urban areas. Sadly young people try to leave small town because there is a social stigma that people in small towns are stupid Second Class and everyone wants to raise their social Status by earning more in big cities and so on
people, not only women.
There are way too many people in the world anyway
literally a lie told be eugenics at the U.N for decades
babyboomers triggered that fear of overpopulation. but Eugenics should mind their business and left those parents to love on their babies. Their mentally trigger WW2 to begin with. millions of lives were lost over nothing. and HOW OLD you thing boomers are? 1946 started the baby boom [ after wwii] quintessential old
if Majority of Earth population is beyond breeding age and beyond work age = what you got? answer BAD MATH.
China do not have 1 billion 20 something year olds. its 1 billion 60 something year olds = MATH come year 2060 what is left over?
Doing a parent has become so difficult. You have to be a good teacher, a good friend, a good model and have a lot of money. Even the world's future is uncertain.
It is definitely a global problem, that men feel they do not earn enough to be able to marry.
It has always been hard to figure out how to raise happy, successful children. Knowing about all the evil things going on around the entire world may be why we have become so fearful. As they say, ignorance is bliss.
There might be a potential world war 3, who knows
@@ninatrabona4629 The Jews figured out how to raise happy successful children just fine. It’s the rest of the of world that can’t keep up
I hate that the solution to the problem for so many in the comments is to “let more people in” instead asking their citizens why they’re choosing to not have kids and starting from there.
The Divorce rate that has been hurting men in America....for decades...is now hurting men in Japan....Many Men in Japan have decided to go Herbivoure...Never to marry and never have kids as a way of safeguarding their wealth.
Japan may need to invest in robot caretakers for the elderly.
Yes! Exactly!
Having a child in the Western world is too much hassle. The taxes are too high. Incomes are insufficient.
Kids aren't pets, they are a fulfilling addition to your life and give many people a purpose and meaning. The cost is an obstacle yes but to just say o well too expensive shows a complete lack of emotion
Japan's own culture is destroying itself. Why would anyone have kids when their entire culture is about working their whole day away? Not only that, but just applying for paid leave is a nigh-impossible feat, since using up paid leave is frowned upon. How could anyone be expected to raise kids in an environment like that?
Japan with all its wealth still cannot save its people from misery. Mental health and personal well-being really needs to be taken seriously there.
Agree, money can't purchase a stable population growth
Well if they stop working their people to death and encourage happiness and not shame in everything they do !
How about being a mother and NOT working, my mum did it with three children and we were as poor as church mice 😮
so are you saying that you don't want a better life for your children if you have any?
@@purrnyan8108 she's making perfect sense, things are going to get ugly that governments maybe forced to pass laws that say anyone who is childless will not receive any kind of assistance whether physical or monetary in their old age including no pension. I can see such laws being passed in the not so near future
My auntie worked and had 6 children
Who is obligated to suffer like your mum did?
@@hermenegildoc3933 did your auntie have to send her kids to cram school from kindergarten up to high school?
If you cannot afford first class, you just fly economy. If you cannot afford a child, you just get a cat.
It's because of their work ethic. My friend was working for an international, Japanese run company. Close to finishing the start of a huge project here in Europe, she quit. Despite the generous salary and pay rise offers, the work was too demanding, even for a business oriented person like her. She had no time for her family.
The 'work ethic' is a myth. It is grossly inefficient and one's presence is more important than productivity. All too often and I stress not all, Japanese companies' management teams are akin to slave drivers. The result is often not more productivity, but workers dragging out their work into overtime. There are lots of good exceptions to this, but after 31 years of working and living here, I can tell you that this Japanese work ethic is far from being ethical.
@@andrewjones-productions exactly
It's not "their" worth ethic tho is it..? It's a national sickness that there is absolutely no escape from, like the British class system, it's all consuming. Japan must be hellish, work till you drop or be shunned by society, probably your own family too.
Also it could be a bit tricky if the husband is presenting a 26 inch private member to his wife.
Fully documented in 1970s medical books (with illustrations)!
Widespread these appendages were explained by the 1945 events.
@@andrewjones-productions You don't get to be the 3rd largest economy in the world with no work ethic. I am sorry but you are ridiculous. Japanese are not as productive as their Western counterparts, but to say they don't have work ethic, you never seen the world, and no clue what you are talking about. It is also apparent you don't know what ethical means because you are using the word incorrectly in the context you are using it. That is why I laughed at your attempted point when I read it.
Well, japan needs to stop forcing their employees to work 14 hour days 6 days a week. Start with that.
Yes, and any labor reform law has to actually be enforced effectively.
Lack of adequate housing, stupendous cost of living crisis, overworked and underpaid. That's about the crux of it.
I meant this Japanese woman and she said she hated it there. They had to work too many hours for too little payment there was no way they could afford to have a child
若者に金が無い。それが全ての原因。結婚する余裕も、交際する余裕も無い。生活するのでやっと。
Japan needs to abolish feminism to bring the birth rates up
お金は関係ない。それならバブル経済のときに子供が沢山生まれたはずだよ
@@user-wj1cy9pp9y that is no excuse.
日本の人口について寝れないほど心配しています。日本の人口が上がるように祈っています。涙を流しています。😢
Population decline isn't a bad thing anyway. You can't have an exponentially growing human population. There are peaks and valleys.
You're right, but that's because you're thinking of humanity as a whole. The unspoken concern is that there's not enough of the "right type" of people being born; there are plenty of places in the world where the birth rate is absolutely fine but I suspect the lives of those people aren't considered as important to some.
@@DrT0705 I always joke that Idiocracy explained the problem with low birth rates. The people who can't remember a condom will continue to reproduce.
The only reason the population has exploded is because boomers aren't dying and are living well Into their 80s. We have an overabundance of elders and and aging population . Instead of having less children we should stop wasting tax dollars and help the bloated medical system by letting many of these geriatrics die off. The youths value to society is way more then people who have already fulfilled their biological purpose and are only being kept alive through advancements in modern medicine with shitty quality of life.
@@drmvp21 I suppose the millions of immigrants have nothing to do with it?
@@winstonwolf5706 not really since immigrant into America tend to come from cultures where having multiple kids and having kids young is the norm. More Immigrants will probably help the birth rate. That's why America want then to flow freely.
Italy and Spain have lower birth rates than Japan, so why are people so worried about Japan? South Korea has half the birthrate of Japan
because italy and spains economy and population arent as big as japans is. gdp: japan = 5 tril, italy = 1.9 tril, korea = 1.6 tril, spain = 1.3 tril. population: japan = 125m, italy = 60m, korea = 51m, spain = 47m. if japan collapses due to its birth rate, it’ll fall much harder than the other countries you named, due to the sheer large scale of it.
No one can afford to have kids anymore.
That right there is I think the real reason. There's low birth rates even in U.S. and Canada, as well is there not? I'm single, so I have a cat instead of a kid. A pet is less expensive.
@@HaleyMary yes every developed countries birth rate is in shambles
It's the opposite. Poorer people have more children than wealthy people and we can see this with countries as well.
@@TheJewishAzovMember That is because children become a financial asset.
In undeveloped economies, they are ranch hands and pension plans.
In developed economies, you have welfare rats, popping out more rats for more benefits.
@@skylinefever Those "rats" are future workers and tax payers in the rat race. No one can survive on those inadequate benefits so they work for a living.
I remember when I was attending Texas Christian University, I took a Sociology course & at 1 point we were talking about population growth. During this lecture, my professor basically said, in order to maintain a stable population growth, for every 100 couples, they need to have at least 210 children. We also compared the growth rates of many 1st World Nations, which included Japan, & what made Japan different from the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, & Australia was that their migration rate into the country was significantly lower then those other dozen countries. Finally, similar to China, many in Japan have a 1 child mindset, so that combined with an above average life expectancy the country is seeing am aging population with an overall decline in its population.
And every other country kills off their old, as to not collapse the economy. look at haslar memorial hospital in gosport uk. and dr. Shipman. Every country does this to one degree or another...apart from japan
Totally agree on the immigration stuff. They deliberately put many obstacles in place for people who wants to live and work in this country. If the government can't open up, the country is going down. However, the 1 child mindset isn't really a thing in Japan. As the speaker suggested, it is more down to each family's financial capability.
Ah yes, Japan should totally let in millions of migrants from the Middle East like Europe did! That will totally not result in a rise in Islamic extremism and terrorism (lol)
😂 no one wants migrants
@@civilengineer3349 proves you have very little knowledge about Japan (and holds extreme views). There are way more people coming (wanting to come) to Japan from South East Asia.
Having kids is a luxury in japan that many simply couldnt afford. The cost of living there is insane....
The majority of young people in Japan are either indifferent to politics or extremely disappointed and suffer from a severe case of learned helplessness.
We are starting to feel helpless in Europe as well.
But love, education and intelligence are stronger than fear
@@fbenbow2197 now f people can just offer that love, knowledge, and understanding in great abundance…
Overhaul the male/long hours work culture
@1:02 "Advance your Korea." 🤣
How can japan expect increasing the number of birth rate ?
Japan has been putting a burden on women to give a birth for decades without any financial support and this affects working women’s career path.
I left my country : Japan just because it’s uncomfortable to live as a woman.
well i hope you dont become a psychotic feminaz1 like the woke women from the west.
Obviously ! Fascist rightwing ultra-nationalist politicians.
Workplace issues and 8 weeks post birth maternity leave is not very comfy 🤷♀️ (it's 26 weeks in India, with full pay)
In which india,do you live?
@@aravindraj5792 TCS/Infosys ,Reliance, national banks and all other public limited companies will give
I don't get it; why would a country where people overwork to their deaths still have a stagnated economy? What's the point of having such a work culture anyways? They're sacrificing themselves for nothing.
Yeah it seems self defeating
They only have themselves to blame. I work an average job in the west and feel very stressed juggling work and family life. How the Japanese government asks people to work the absurd hours and have a large family at the same time with very little support from the government is ridiculous.
But the work culture is so ingrained into Japanese overall culture I don't think it'll ever be fixed, just like how I don't think Americas gun problem will ever be fixed. Its just too deeply embedded.
Ever been to Japan?
hahaha... do you even know your own history? There isn't women's right to vote until one person stood up (Susan B. Anthony as an example). There isn't any equal rights for African Americans until... oh? another person stood up (Rosa Parks this time) . If you don't stand up for change, nothing will be changed.
Having childrens in this world is not good , i dont want my childrens to experience what i have been experienced
You can't expect the government to solve the problems they create, the answer is simple government needs to quite regulating and taxing EVERYTHING. People don't want to put their offspring into the same screwed up slave indoctrination system they themselves are in. You can't expect 2 working parents to properly raise a child, you then have to use the systems "help" to take care of them with the systems beliefs and expectations not yours.
I had a Japanese friend who made a dark joke to me about this topic:
“There’s no point for Japan to have any abortion clinics because nobody’s getting pregnant.”
Japan so technologically advanced to the point their society is anti-human.
to the point
Culturally they prioritise the elder over the younger, and so they are not investing in the wellbeing, economy and life satisfaction of the younger generations at all. If you are stigmatised against using your voice in opposition to your elders, how can young people advocate for social, economic or political adjustment? And why on earth would you, with so little to support you, begin parenthood?
These folks aren’t really “Japanese”. These folks are Koreans who pushed the native Japanese off their islands. Look it up. This fact makes it rather ironic that Japan heavily restricts immigration. They are a nation of immigrants.
True:
As an American I went backpacking in Australia and meet many Japanese people. Basically they explained it like this: The Japanese salreyman is basically expected to work 60+ hours a week plus go drinking with his coworkers 2+ times a week (as a non-drinker I consider this working,) leading to an effective 70+ hour workweek, turn his entire paycheck over to his wife, and is put on an allowance, usually the equivalent of $200 USD a month, which he uses for "walking around money" while the wife spends all of his and her money at will.
If you don't fall into this system and are a casual hourly worker, you are undesirable as a man. Many look at their fathers and grandfathers and simply don't want to work like that.
Japan ahead of time
Seeing as the world’s population has flown beyond 8 billion and still increasing, I don’t think we’re gonna be running out of people anytime soon, which will do the earth a ton of favours.
When the huge boomer population dies eventually, since most are now living Into their 80s you will see a huge population decrease
As in most modern countries, there is an ageing population which needs younger people to pay for them.
Because modern medicine has created an unintended consequence. Before the last century life expectancy was much lower and modern medicine keeps people alive at all cost irregardless of quality of life.
We are decarbonizing for the rest of humanity on the Earth! No birth, no suffering!
Gimme a break. Learn how to run economies even with a shrinking population, and STOP EXPECTING continual growth for every company! There are few rewards for having children, and-especially-none of them are worthwhile monetarily. My wife and I chose not to have kids, for similar reasons. We'll spend our money on us.
Right here with ya, Prof! Kudos & much respect to u & the Mrs! Sure wish more people could follow your example. Am 45 & an old maid & am so glad to be so. I got lonely. Big deal. I got me a wonderful dog instead! Us childless wastes of space gotta stick together.......🥰
I mean, see their work culture. Who would wanna have kids in that kinda situation
I ish everyone could think like her
Japan, a population of 125 million? Wow. That's way large number of population than most western nations. 🤔
You must sacrifice career of your children , choose wisely
Before western influence, Japan was a family orientated society. The reason that the birth rate is low is because of the materialistic lifestyle imposed on Japan by the West.
No, it's just younger generations waking up and realizing how expensive it is to have a baby. Not to mention the strict society we live in.
Why everything blamed west?
Japan are Lucky they no need has to follow Muslim countries where women are considered as child-making machines and make the country more overpopulated just like that
Sorry but it is feminism
@@MrHkl8324 where did you get this wrong information?
Spain is exactly the same. The main difference is that inmigrant people (especially the ones who comes from north Africa) are having 4 or 5 children while spanish are struggle to have one. That is creating a big social problem in our country.
Under r > g, it is so hard to achieve underlying population growth.
its a wolrd wide issue in my opinion...everything is too expensive to have kids
Money is obviously the biggest problem here in Japan. There are so many people suffering. Economy has been stagnating for thirty years, also average wage hasn't been raised, but pension, insurance, everything that we're obligated to pay has been increasing. Most of the young are sttrugling their life even though they're living alone.
Not only in modern country like japan or south korea, even In development countries like mind the cost of living, education is increasing very high every year. im millenial i saw less teens going to colleges, this is sad time.
Dang
Life is too good in the modern times, why someone would want to have kids? We have a lot of better things to do than get stuck in a marriage and raising kids....
Whatever individual women say, the underlying reason is perfectly clear - debt. High property prices and relatively low wages force couples to work full time. There is neither money nor time for traditional values, such as a family. Property and debt are destroying Japan, Britain and a host of other developed countries. We need to end foreign investment in property markets, end unsecured mortgages, introduce rent controls, rebuild council housing portfolios, bring back building codes to ensure new builds are fit for children (because under the "Affordable Housing Initiative" many aren't), abolish the red tape that closed our voluntary nursery groups and end mass immigration. This is a far more urgent crisis than so-called global warming.
the underlying reason is perfectly clear, feminism. Debt? Wow, an afrian 3rd shithell of the country can have a 6.0 rate. You are lying to yourself. It has nothing to do with anything beside feminism.
That could explain the boom in romance animes as of late
Gee……………… I wonder why.
I lived in Japan for 24 yrs. This bit about 'not having children' is really about taxes and consumption. Pop, is now about 125 million and will decrease to about 70 m. same as England/ France( about) The govt wants more tax payers and the next gen to buy stuff. Parents in Japan have 14 yrs after child is born to save for their collage. Sex has been replaced by '1) sperm count 2) the internet and 3) excuses .
Life is very different now when compared to the 1970s, not just in Japan but all over the world. It's surely a good thing that more people are hesitant to have children that are likely to suffer in a whole host of different and uncontrollable ways. Why would anyone wish misery on someone else, let alone their own child? We don't ask to be born, and then we have to just figure out how to exist despite all these challenges and struggles. That isn't a gift or a blessing, it's a punishment. More power to anyone who decides they don't want to knowingly inflict pain on another life.
Life is a blessing. Life is not merely suffering. Buddha was wrong.
@@aclark903 okay, if you say so.
@@ukraine_will_win_ Some suffering is brought on by bad leaders, yet people blame God.
@@aclark903 well, God created these leaders, and GOD is watching right?
@@ukraine_will_win_ This is true.
It's really up to big daddy government when it comes to the population, the citizens spread their legs for the govt in japan, but they still won't change the work place system
Their once famed job- for -life system is on its last legs. Some workplaces have people on generous salaries, big bonuses, with the company stumping up half the health/ pension premiums doing the same work or less than younger staff on unstable annual contracts with crappy pay and none of the benefits the elder staff get.
Japan doesn't acknowledge, reward or thank anyone for hard work, it just expects it. If someone collapses and leaves due to the stress of overwork, they are replaced by cheaper temporary workers but there is never any reflection on what causes such outcomes. Holidays are rare and taking anything longer than a couple of days is frowned upon due to " inconveniencing" colleagues.
Nobody in these toxic work environments is going to prioritize having kids when they struggle to get by themselves in a country with ever increasing taxes imposed to create more funds for the health and pension of the massive aging population.
Add to that, the spineless unions , the cultural habit of " gaman" ( endure/ put up with things) along with the defeatist mantra of " sho ga nai" ( it can't be helped/ there's nothing we can do) , you have a country that meekly goes along with each punch to the face instead of standing up against injustice and bullies.
Now, like everywhere else, there is a focus on online worlds for escapism/ friendships and entertainment so one less reason to actually go out, socialise and have traditional relationships. Oh and if you are old school and venture out into the streets, good luck finding your soul mate among the sea of masked zombies. . .
Existence is not a gift, existence is suffering.
Being born fails a cost/benefit analysis and only death seems worse than continuing to live.
But I can end the curse here and not inflict this capricious reality on another sentient being.
Yes, I'd love it if parents had to obtain a contract from their non existent children to be born.
Yes existence is suffering and sacrifice, the more we conscious, the more we realize it
Japanese culture is naturally selecting itself
Company and government problems
The prime minister is talking like there is no issues causing it. Right in front of his face.
Who would bring a child into this world
Only a man and a woman. Together.
One way to make life easy for a working mother is work from home facility she can work and look after her children. Wonder those Japanese companies would even think of it before rejecting the idea, because who care's MONEY IS THE KING
Or put women out of the labour force?
Those children who just born in recent years also would have less friends of the same age when they enter school later
I left Japan 20 years ago to pursue my dream of growing my business. I'm still single, but I decided not to return to Japan and changed my nationality some years ago. My only reason was that I am a woman.
When the country is over-populated, falling birth rate is not a bad thing. Japan's population density is 3.4 times bigger than in California, - the most populated US state.
Commiefornistan 🤡
Over-populated in the capital and major cities. Not so much if you go outside to the rural areas, some of which are like ghost towns.
Why should rural areas be more populated?
@@civilengineer3349 Just pointing out that the population density is calculated disproportionately and it doesn't take into account that there being fewer central hubs for people to congregate.
Many men are beginning to concentrate on their own health and abstain from the whole father/family/provider grind. This is not stated openly but once a man becomes a father, he is in it for life. I'm talking about proper families from non-western world who marry and stay together till death. West is a different matter and has become too complex.
And what about women??
@@missandry2669 Same with women
@@missandry2669 wtf is your username!
Why is this such an issue now? Any children conceived now wouldn't be adults until 2043, this problem simply can't be fixed without a time machine.
My wife looked for a nursery for our child in Chiba, Japan, but there were no places available, except for a nursery with no windows. There's a million problems why people don't want to have kids in Japan...
But why they had a much higher birth rate before?
The Japan's-Government's measures to children decline look ‘to reform the mindset and behavior of men, such as correcting long working hours, reviewing personnel evaluations, changing the mindset of managers, encouraging men to take childcare leave, etc., and creating a work environment that is compatible with childcare and diverse work styles’, and ‘it includes the promotion of women's employment, continuous employment and career advancement support for women.’
Trying to change men is not going to work, maybe men should be allowed to be themselves? Getting a bit tired of people like yourself lecturing men.
少子化の流れはもう少し緩やかにしたいところですね。自動化、ロボット化、無人化によってある程度の労働力減少分をすでに補い始めています。そして今後はよりこの流れが加速するでしょう。
@Alventura De la Cruz It's not selfish for kids to not take care of you: when you FORCED them into the world without their prior consent, then you got NOBODY to whine and complain about but YOURSELF, because YOU TOOK THE RISK of popping out kids. They signed NO CONTRACT with you before being born.
Its strange, even in the past where life is not as good as today people still had many children. Humanity sacrifice their family for progress.
There are probably a lot of chemicals in the environment. This could
be affecting fertility of men and women. How long, on average,
does it take a couple to achieve pregnancy? Japanese society seems
to be class conscious. Do fertility rates vary between classes? Why
or why not? Do Japanese out-migrate? There is very little migration into
the country, I believe. At one time there was no old age pension system
in the country. Is this still the case? Would the Japanese people be comfortable
with migration from South Korea? That might help. Being able to escape from
the very crowded cities to the countryside might help also. Perhaps a lottery with
country trips as a prize?
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800,000 babies seems quite a lot to me for the any given year and for a small Island. I can't see what the problem is.
800,000, it might seem like a lot but 1/3 of those babies will die before ever having their own kids, now remember, about 1 or 2 million are reaching retirement age every year. You end up with too many oldies and few Young people, I can foresee old people outnumbering young people in Japan in about 50 years
Not just Japan, most of the world’s population are to old for starting families! 😮
there are way more many reasons than just those expressed by this lady not to have children in any country on this planet. i can honestly only think of one very good reason to have a child and even that is more about serving your own desire. I would venture that if the child was able to assess and express that assessment with any rational, informed logic they would elect to forego being brought into existence on this planet under any circumstance.
Enjoy your nihilistic world there champ.
I completely agree. Given the choice from the beginning, I doubt many would choose to be born. The little things that are sometimes enjoyable don't outweigh the enormous things that are often painful and destructive. And the worst part is that pain and suffering can happen to anyone, regardless of what they're born into. All the money and love and time and support won't stop someone from suffering. Anyone who would knowingly take the risk obviously has a very specific kind of wiring.
@@mydogeatspuke I'm sorry you haven't learned how to deal with problems in your life.
@@purrnyan8108 I've learned just fine, but it wasn't without suffering. I don't want to inflict that on someone else. I don't see how that could ever be perceived as a bad thing. Unless you're a sociopath, I suppose.
@@mydogeatspuke Have you not thought that how you are demonizing other people is a kind of mental problem as well?
Create a society which distributes wealth evenly and just watch the population grow.
If everyone gets the same wealth, then the most productive will work less because there is no gain in wealth for being more productive
@@civilengineer3349 It's better than what we have where the rich (1%) get around 2/3 of the global wealth
Never read history book have you Tom. Communism doesn't work. Should a nuclear physicist get paid the same as a bin man? should someone that works 12 hours get the same as someone that works 40?
"That wasn't true Communism" might as well be a catchphrase at this point
@Civil Engineer why does 1 man need billion dollars? Or 100 billion?
So basically if a country wants to increase the birth rate, make the cost of living more affordable and make it easier for women to have children without hindering their career. Honestly it's mostly up to the governments to do this, also I guess for society as a whole to try and reduce a very workaholic culture.
More money will not solve this problem. The scandinavian countries regarded as having the most generous help for families also have the same falling population rate (notwithstanding immigration). The problem is the attitude towards woman having their career as the most important thing in their life. If you think that a career is the most fulfilling thing that you could do in your life, you either have a strange take on what is fulfilling or you have drunk the associated kool aid. Until motherhood and parenthood is given the appropriate status in society, we will continue to see falling populations. Families have been underminded terribly since the second half of the 20th century and now we are seeing the ramification of this.
The problem is the attitude towards woman having their career as the most important thing in their life - I am sorry but maybe it is time to speak about men finally? women can work and men can stay in kitchen!
@@ukraine_will_win_ The question of the video, was about raising the fertility rate of Japan. If I have your solution correct, you think ... men being in the kitchen will help....? Please expand on your thinking, I don't see how this will help the fertility rate of Japan.
@@vickersfield3847 women would feel more secure and protected, and there would be lower rates of home abuse when woman cant leave the abuser (it is not not always a physical abuse you know) because she dont have a job/income/X years of expert experience (because she spent these years doing house work for free - cooking/cleaning/washing/dishes/kids/dogs/parrots blablabla. try too dress as a woman ang go on a job interview. they still ask if you have/plan to have kids/marry blaabla, who leaves the job if the kid is sick? mother, who doesnt get enough "years for pension" because of sick leaves etc etc etc - a female, i wont spend hours writing this list because i can write it VERY long because i saw it too many times already. what you propose - is to make weak even weaker and grow amount of dependent victims, not only sexual ones.
@@ukraine_will_win_ Yes there are relationship problems for everyone - I hope you are not suggesting that all relationship problems are because of men. That would be unfair and weaken your argument.
But once again I try to bring you back to the topic of the video. How is it possible to increase fertility rates in Japan; or most of the developed world for that matter. This is not an issue of how much money the government throws at the problem - this is failing. The only way this can be reversed is with better societal attitudes towards having children, motherhood and the family unit that supports this. Having children should be, as my own experience has been, a wonderful and life affirming decision. I'm certainly not suggesting I have any of the answers, but without wide societal support for having children the rest is just noise.
Al Jezera have just posted a story, "Why money will not be enough to address Japan’s baby crisis", that goes into more depth. It's the attitude of the population to raising children, not how much it costs.
I hope this continues to happen around the world. Perhaps we can get our stuff together and help save our planet for future generations that do come. And her reasons are very valid. IMO
Idiocy. The future generations WON'T come unless we have them.
@@greggrimer354 Complete idiocy on your part Greg.!!! It says the percentage rate has dropped not completely stopped dumb ass. Reread/ fully read my comment “for the generations that DO come”.!!!
In the late 1800’s to early 1900’s it was something like 1 billion people in the world now how much is it?? I can’t remember the exact statistics but let’s say 300 billion. We are over running the planet dumb ass so even if it dropped 50% we would be fine. Less people to feed obviously we have to spell it out step by step for you my dear. 🙄 Smdh
@@DarhaLB How do you think pensions are funded and the capitalist economy works?
Ya that old and weak people can not save the planet , You need younger generations to plant trees and bring new inventions in renewable energy sector
@@greggrimer354 Someone will continue to have children. Mostly it will be the people who can't remember a condom or are brainwashed with hellfire and brimstone sermons will reproduce.
It speaks volumes about government when a chancellor of the exchequer can’t figure out his own tax. Is there no one being straightforward in government?
how's that related to this video