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Anon worries about Japan
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this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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This probably explains a lot of declining birth rates in western countries as well.
There's a plateauing effect that's been observed when health, happiness, and comfort are reached within a country. When your country doesn't have a high infant/child mortality rate, you don't need to have more than 2-3 kids. So the birthrate tends to go down.
Japan is sort of a whole different beast. There's some pretty good documentaries that discuss the issues when observed from certain fronts: the grind culture, lack of childcare, lack of gender equality.
There's a lot of cultural things that need to be fixed in Japan, and no one wants to change.
I think you're leaving out one of the biggest. Immigration is the main factor keeping many western nations out of population decline. Japan is fairly xenophobic and not really big on immigration.
The US for instance has an aging population and Americans don't have many kids anymore. Immigrants have bigger families at least for a couple generations and slow the decline.
True. I wouldn't want to live and work in Japan.