January 10th is the Coming of Age Day (the day of new adults) in Japan. Japanese new adults are 1.24 million in this year. The most Japanese new adults were 2.46 million in 1970. For the first time Japanese new adults are under one percent of the total Japanese population in this year.
The total Japanese population was 40 million in 1900. It was 100 million in 1960. 60 million increased during 60 years. One million increased in one year. The peak was 2005. The population was 127 million.
In 2100 the population of Japan will be 40 million. It is same in 1900. About 80 million people increased during one hundred years, and about 80 million people will decreased during next one hundred years in Japan. I don't know if this prospect is correct or not, but the provision must be done.
This prospect is according to the statistics of the general
affairs department of Japan. The total Japanese population
was 40 million in 1900. The peak was in 2005.
The population was 127 million. About 80 million people
increased during one hundred years.
I think that it shows the history of development of Japan.
It was necessity for modernization of Japan.
Now Japan has been an advanced nation, and the total
Japanese population has already begun to decrease.
What does this decrease mean?
Can Japan develop from now on? Will Japan go downhill?
Anyway it is true that Japan will become the country
of huge old people, but it is not all things of Japan.
At least Japanesse should have good provisions for
huge old people.
We must select only one way of progress, because
there are no other ways.
Let's remember that Hybrid Kuma did a ton of racist and I believe homophobic trolling in this community in the past, so the faster you ignore him the better off we'll all be.
I don't think I've actually stated my position on the matter, so I'm not sure where you get off saying that "people like me" want to do this, that, or the other thing.
Ah yes, now I remember more about you. The internet tough guy who thinks he's more Japanese than the Japanese posting here. Like you'd be accepted with open arms by the right wingers in the black trucks?
Nobody liked you the first time you shat all over this community either; that's why you quit Mixi then, right? But you finally registered again and decided to return to your old stomping grounds, except you failed to realize that someone might remember your BS and call you out on it.
You're a white guy who claims he's in with thugs and extremists, loves to talk about guns (even in threads totally unrelated to the topic) and seems to utterly despise anyone with a political view to the left of Mussolini. Mom didn't love you, Dad didn't hug you enough (or maybe too much), who knows. You're going to try to raise hell in every thread that offers people the chance to express a political opinion, until you get fed up with the fact that you're just a lone ITG and delete your profile, again. Wash hands, rinse, repeat.
"they are as you septic tanks says "Patriots" they put the country first, unlike you lefties that put people and human rights first."
Oh man, gold. Excellent material, thanks for that mate. I'm gonna use that for my FreeRepublic sockpuppet account. That is if you didn't get it from there yourself?
As to the question whether immigration is "good" or "bad": in terms of crime, it does seem that multiculturalism does breed a certain amount of racial tension, although I would state that people within classes live relatively harmoniously because they share similar goals and the like. Japan's somewhat homogeneous society is hardly a crime-free paradise, and police factually look the other way when certain forms of crime are committed (e.g. domestic violence, bosozoku, etc.). Nevertheless, I would say that I would generally agree with Mr. Bear: Japan's being Japanese does serve to keep things under control, and a certain social homeostasis has been reached.
Japan's current companies cannibalize its society for yen. As society ages and the population declines, so too does the power of the companies. Japan's economy is in tatters because it cannot adapt to a changing world. Its companies are slow to react to new information and many are incapable of dealing with multiculturalism, and managing people at foreign sites. This, for me, is a product of Japan's homogeneity. Having a range of ideas from different cultural lenses is what makes companies strong. Understanding how to do business in other countries by understanding the people there makes companies strong. Strong companies in turn, through taxation, help drive national economies. I believe if Japanese truly wish to succeed economically, they must, minimally, learn how to interact with different peoples. The easiest way of doing this is on a daily basis, by being surrounded by people from other cultures, and learning both tolerance and cooperation.
That said, if the issue is about population, I ask you, Mr. Bear, if Japanese women do not wish to have more babies and Japan does not relax immigration laws, what becomes of Japanese society? How will you, Mr. Bear, retire? And how will you contribute to society long-term?
> Hybrid Kumaさん
Shrinking population is a grave issue for each country which should be solved initially because a country needs a certain number of population to maintain its national system. Population in the world economic leader China is also decreasing due to its only child policy. In Japan we must control this shrinking and aging population right away. Maybe a reason for the decrease lies in Japan's social system. We should follow the example in north European countries.
> Hybrid Kuma
OK we get the 6B people = bad thing. But keep in mind there are places with immigration needs and other places with surpluses. It's not uniformly distributed where people are needed. Economically speaking.
Japan needs more ジェラードs to help decelerate the population decline. Keep at the good work buddy!
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Well done, ジェラード! It surely helps alleviate Japan's flagrant decreasing and aging population.
I think one of the reasons for the population decline lies in the change in Japanese women's attitudes towards their carriers. Conditions surrouding them have been improved and they have come to work more like men. So they scarcely quit the jobs and marry late, and eventually they hardly have time to care about their cildren under the present social systems and companys' policies.
Your post somewhat reminded me of a friend of mine who claims it'd be settled if all the women became housewives as some competent women expel men from the limited job openings.
Anyway, there should be other ways to balance out between work and child rearing without confining the life styles of women.
For example, Japanese firms could encourage child rearing through corporate child bonus and massive applause like they do for a promotion. Though we already have the petty child allowance from the gov and employees pension insurance but they are not tempting enough to motivate us.
A statistics shows that a lot of women wish to go back in business after the childbirth, thus they dare not deliver a baby for the fear of a demotion, assuming they can even return to work. This could be prevented by making it mandatory for corporations to ensure the woman the same or equivalent position after their childbearing, even if they were a temporary worker. Other ways for them to support child rearing would be having a corporate-supported daycare center nearby. (some corporations already do this but it's not common yet.)
In my opinion, the corporations need to take the initiative as the workplace often influences us the most.
Then what should the gov could do? Well, I think they could let the insurance cover the fertility treatment including artificial insemination and legalize surrogate mothers, and make adoption more accessible. (I think the society that make the adoptive family feel a sense of guilt is nonsense to begin with.)
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My basic philosophy regarding a working place environment is that an able person can participate in the job without sexes and I'm for the recent trend of women's attitudes towards their careers. The most important issue is how those women can continue to work with child bearing under the present social system. As you mentioned, we can expect some support publicly and privately but it is not far enough. Only a few prestigious large-scaled firms can provide daycare center though the firms more than 90 percent are middle or small scaled in Japan and they can't provide such systems.
I think we need a drastic evolution of social security system to stop the shrinking Japanese population for our future generation.
> 37
You are really digging, but the answer is most likely a traditional family model. And the father needs time at home too! Obviously the 5 day work week is killing "developed" society.
The corporations are not a substitute for social infrastructure financing. When corporations get involved it's just an indication that the gov't isn't providing these essential services.
> Hybrid Kuma
OK economics lesson time.
What you describe is a cute theory, that might have existed in a Ages preceding the French Revolution. Might because even then it's not as simple as you describe. Also since your a knuckle dragging gorilla, just for you i'll mention we are a little past the French Revolution period.
Read this book, "The Ascent of Money: The Financial History of the World."
Here is the link, so no excuse for not picking it up. It's one of those can't put down books.
http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World/dp/B002M4ZH8C
Here is a quote from the Amazon comments, not the book:
"History is also filled with financial disasters of which we are well aware today. Ferguson tells the story of John Law and how he became France's head of finance. He engineered a financial bubble that took them several generations to overcome. Making matters worse, it occurred at the same time as the British South Sea Bubble. "
If you read Wikipedia or know only from a public school education you'd think the French Revolution was caused by high taxation, rising commodities prices, and the monarchy gov't going insolvent. The actual reason is the introduction of bond/stock trading. John Law engineered the 1st ponzi scheme which brought down the entire society. Not just the gov't. Not just France!! Everyone in Europe got in on this. You'd be nuts not to be. It was the true beginning of the modern bond/stock market system. And societies with a stock/bond markets were able to create liquidity which meant they had something like ~10-23 times as much money as a society without a stock/bond market. Which helps to explain why Europe had so much money to conduct all these wars.
In the stock/bond market system, it doesn't behave predictably like you described it. I'd advice you not to play the stock market with that way of thinking.
How's that "burnt out light" theory working out for you??
But lets pretend, we don't know all the above. And i'm a as dimwit as you imagine me to be. You know someone who would think what you wrote makes a lot of sense.
Well then i'd look at the Age we live in. We are in a time of plenty (close to the opposite of what you described). Don't believe me look around your room. How much Made in China plastic crap shit do you have lying around the house? You can't avoid that crap. It's everywhere. Like bed bugs or the many trash nazi obaba in Japan. This is made possible because global society is in a time of plenty. You are saying we are in a time of scarcity which is not true. What we are in is a time of in-balanced distribution of wealth. Which is easily solved by having a non-fascist gov't policies. Trade barriers would rid ourselves of the scourge of Made in China garbage and do wonders to create a more fair redistribution of wealth.
btw fascist means when the gov't is pretty much run by corporations.
Sound familiar?!
This is what the US is suffering from. There is definitely no scarcity of anything in the US including good medical care. It is the land of plenty! The issue is how that medical care is cost-managed / distributed. Japan does a admirable good job at it. The US is like an MBA case study of what not to do.
Name calling and bitching aside, i really do recommend you read that book. You'll shit yourself to realize history education in public schools is a complete pack of bullshit and lies. cracked.com provides a better history education than public schools. And that's a humor web site.
Question: do the owners of this group delete offensive posts at all? I don't want to pick on someone and I guess the guy was drunk, but this is... jeeez...us. I guess I shouldn't bump the thread lol
And regarding the topic, while a smaller population is not necessarily a bad thing economically, an aging one is. Japan has to do something, a mixture of supporting parents and limited immigration I reckon. The recent encouraged repatriation of immigrant workers seemed so short-sighted.