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Japan's child population falls for 45th straight year to new low 13.29 million. (english.kyodonews.net)
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Japan's child population has shrunk to an estimated 13.29 million as of April 1, down 350,000 from a year earlier and marking a new record low, the government said Monday.

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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You would think with a dwindling population Japan would start trying to increase immigration, or at least make it seem more attractive to the native population as a stopgap, but it's still a very insular country.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Japan makes Germany look downright humble in how superior it thinks it is to the rest of the world.

    Both places are very cool don't get me wrong but both also seem to have an acute difficulty of truly accepting immigrants into their society in a way that reminds me of the worst parts of the US.

    These places panic about demographic aging while scoffing at the idea of just encouraging and enabling younger humans to move to them and it is pathetic.

    The population can only increase the right way otherwise it is bad...

    I am so tired of this shit, no your precious Japanese, German or American culture will not survive unchanged forever, everything changes, get over the "scary" idea of people living near you that look different than you and invite new people in and make something better, stop pathetically clinging to the past like a bunch of weird ass dog breeders that want to apply dog breeding logic to human beings and human society it is creepy and incredibly unattractive.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Both places are very cool don’t get me wrong but both also seem to have an acute difficulty of truly accepting immigrants into their society in a way that reminds me of the worst parts of the US.

    ... Berlin is basically Istanbul 2, and I say this as a turkish person.

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