[QUOTE][B]Japan's population of 128 million will shrink by a third, and over-65s will account for 40% of people by 2060[/B], placing an ever-increasing burden on the working-age population to support the country's social security and tax systems.
The new figures, released on Monday by the health and welfare ministry, also showed that the national workforce of people between the ages of 15 and 65 will shrink to about half of the total population.
The estimated fertility rate, or the expected number of children born per woman over their lifetime, is put at 1.35 for 2060, down from 1.39 in 2010 and – well below the level needed to keep the country's population from declining.
At the same time, Japanese people will live longer. [B]The average life expectancy for 2060 is estimated at 90.93[/B] for women, up from 86.39 in 2010, and 84.19 for men, up from 79.64.
The Japanese prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has pledged to push for social security and tax reforms this year. A bill he promised to submit by the end of March would raise the country's 5% sales tax in two stages – to 8% in 2014 and 10% by 2015, but opposition both in parliament and among the public is significant.
The national institute of population and social security research, which produced the estimates, said Japan was the world's fastest-ageing country, and with its birthrate among the lowest, its population decline would be among the steepest globally in the coming decades.
Experts say that Japan's population will drop by a million every year and that the country urgently needs to overhaul its social security and tax system to reflect the demographic shift.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/30/japan-population-shrink-third[/url]
No! My delicious animes!
Japan needs to invade somewhere so that they can have more space...
They should invade China or North Korea.
No. My hot Japanese women!
The maybe it's a good idea that all the immigrants that is currently overpopulating Europe should go to Japan instead?
[QUOTE=Best4bond;34586799]Japan needs to invade somewhere so that they can have more space...
They should invade China or North Korea.[/QUOTE]
Haha, how would that help.
[QUOTE=johan svensk;34586802]The maybe it's a good idea that all the immigrants that is currently overpopulating Europe should go to Japan instead?[/QUOTE]
Overpopulating?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;34586803]Haha, how would that help.
Overpopulating?[/QUOTE]
Bad choice of word, i was thinking that a lot of countries in Europe are lowering the amount of immigrants they allow in their country(not including sweden) and that a lot of immigrants have no place to go.
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Though Europe is getting a flood of immigrants.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;34586799]Japan needs to invade somewhere so that they can have more space...
They should invade China or North Korea.[/QUOTE]
They have. It didn't turn out well.
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;34586958]They have. It didn't turn out well.[/QUOTE]
Oh... Then maybe we should get them some more birth control to decrease there population even more.
Good.
Same here in Germany. Low birthrates suggest that we're in pretty much the same situation; But we don't have animes. Fuck.
In 10 years Romania's population lowered by about 2-3 million. Shit's fucked.
Nothing government intervention can't fix. If they make it cheaper to raise children people will have more babies. Pretty simple.
Its becauser a fourth of Japanese males don't give a fuck anymore. They find going after relationships is too difficult and not worth the energy. Then there is the third of women who feel they can't compete with the 50's house wife model of girlfriend in those dating games.
They dun fucked themselves over :v:
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[QUOTE=sami-pso;34587253]Nothing government intervention can't fix. If they make it cheaper to raise children people will have more babies. Pretty simple.[/QUOTE]
They already did, there are MASSIVE incestives to have lots of a children and for families that do, they usually have 3 to 4 children.
It just their culture is headed in the direction where neither gender can actually communicate which is breaking down any form of incentive to get together.
[quote]The Japanese prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has pledged to push for social security and tax reforms this year. A bill he promised to submit by the end of March would raise the country's 5% sales tax in two stages – to 8% in 2014 and 10% by 2015, [B]but opposition both in parliament and among the public is significant[/B].[/quote]
"well if you didn't want higher taxes MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE FUCKED MORE!"
-snip-
[QUOTE=Woomp;34587082]Good.[/QUOTE]
You're just a love boat of understanding and comprehension :v:
[QUOTE=Best4bond;34586799]Japan needs to invade somewhere so that they can have more space...
They should invade China or North Korea.[/QUOTE]
From regular thread to a troll thread in less than ten posts. :v:
They gotta stop fucking those digital relationship robots.
Its also the fact women are getting stronger and Japanese men can't hide their sexist unbringing unlike American men :v:
(FYI joke)
[QUOTE=Swilly;34587663]Its also the fact women are getting stronger and Japanese men can't hide their sexist unbringing unlike American men :v:
(FYI joke)[/QUOTE]
Unlike here, that was a serious problem in Japan up until around the late 1980's and 90's, and it's *still* a problem in the corporate world. Extremely so, in fact, with all of the pre-2000's, crusty old business people who carry out Mad Men-style lives.
One of the biggest social reasons is that the younger generations just aren't doing enough dating, marrying, and having children. There's a sizeable percentage of these people who are single, and of those, a fair few don't even *want* to change that, or feel that it's impossible.
It sounds pathetic (forever alone lolz!!1!), but it's a very serious and depressing fact that may be impossible to fix.
To Japanese: Please go out and have babies. I don't want to become an endangered racial group. :(
[QUOTE=itak365;34587789]Unlike here, that was a serious problem in Japan up until around the late 1980's and 90's, and it's *still* a problem in the corporate world. Extremely so, in fact, with all of the pre-2000's, crusty old business people who carry out Mad Men-style lives.
One of the biggest social reasons is that the younger generations just aren't doing enough dating, marrying, and having children. There's a sizeable percentage of these people who are single, and of those, a fair few don't even *want* to change that, or feel that it's impossible.
It sounds pathetic (forever alone lolz!!1!), but it's a very serious and depressing fact that may be impossible to fix.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. It also doesn't help that they're exteremely isolationist either.
My 2 week trip through Japan was more of trying to sight see and avoiding the local population.
[B]BECAUSE THEY JUMP YOU FOR FUCKING ATTENTION.[/B]
[QUOTE=Swilly;34587260]They find going after relationships is too difficult and not worth the energy[/QUOTE]
Well they're not wrong
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;34587810]Well they're not wrong[/QUOTE]
They are extremely wrong as the suicide rate can attest to.
They also grow up no learning this from real life experience, but through dating games.
More babies? isn't there enough already?
[QUOTE=skifer;34587819]More babies? isn't there enough already?[/QUOTE]
There is a reason japan is trying to make a robot army.
[QUOTE=skifer;34587819]More babies? isn't there enough already?[/QUOTE]
If a third of your population is dropping, THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM.
I love the trolling and idiotic comments, just shows how much Facepunch understand societal problems can easily translate to problems for OTHER societies.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;34587070]Oh... Then maybe we should get them some more birth control to decrease there population even more.[/QUOTE]
What purpose would that serve? They just said that they need more to stay stable.
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[QUOTE=Swilly;34587844]If a third of your population is dropping, THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM.
I love the trolling and idiotic comments, just shows how much Facepunch understand societal problems can easily translate to problems for OTHER societies.[/QUOTE]
I blame Spongebob Squarepants and religion.
[QUOTE=Bomimo;34587894]
I blame Spongebob Squarepants and religion.[/QUOTE]
Shitty comeback is shitty.
woah a population shrinking
didn't see that coming
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