Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
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Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#2There is no stabilization of the Japanese ethnic population in sight. With these trends I wonder how the island will change culturally in 100 or 200 years. I suspect we'll see them continue to open more and more to the west.
Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#3There is no stabilization of the Japanese ethnic population in sight. With these trends I wonder how the island will change culturally in 100 or 200 years. I suspect we'll see them continue to open more and more to the west.
The rest of the West isn’t far behind. Only in Africa and a country or two in the Middle East is the birth rate above replacement rate.
Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#4As a bit of a side tract, this is happening to all modernized nations, only Japan is one of the few modern countries that isn't allowing enough legal immigrants to make up for the decline. The US also has a negative native population growth, but because the doom and disaster a negative growth rate would cause upon our current economic models we allow shit tons of legal immigration to maintain growth.
Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#5As a bit of a side tract, this is happening to all modernized nations, only Japan is one of the few modern countries that isn't allowing enough legal immigrants to make up for the decline. The US also has a negative native population growth, but because the doom and disaster a negative growth rate would cause upon our current economic models we allow shit tons of legal immigration to maintain growth.
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Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#6There is no stabilization of the Japanese ethnic population in sight. With these trends I wonder how the island will change culturally in 100 or 200 years. I suspect we'll see them continue to open more and more to the west.
The rest of the West isn’t far behind. Only in Africa and a country or two in the Middle East is the birth rate above replacement rate.
Don’t forget India and some Asian countries
Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#7I wonder what if one of developed countries focused on males? Something like "future is male" and "support your father/husband/son" etc. Additionally remove any child support for single parents etc. Maybe that could work? Basically the opposite of current policies.
Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#8It would be nice to see more in-depth root cause analyses of the fertility issues that many nations like Japan are facing. It's obvious there are a lot of causal factors of various weights, but it's difficult to see which ones have the greatest effect as well as which ones we would be able to improve the easiest. Too often all of these issues seem to just be hand-waved as "something that just happens", with few groups actually working to apply the scientific method in order to improve the situation.
Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#9There is no stabilization of the Japanese ethnic population in sight. With these trends I wonder how the island will change culturally in 100 or 200 years. I suspect we'll see them continue to open more and more to the west.
The rest of the West isn’t far behind. Only in Africa and a country or two in the Middle East is the birth rate above replacement rate.
Just a cursory Google search shows that countries like Mexico and the Philippines are way above the replacement rate as well so I don't think your comment is accurate.
Re: Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise
#10As a bit of a side tract, this is happening to all modernized nations, only Japan is one of the few modern countries that isn't allowing enough legal immigrants to make up for the decline. The US also has a negative native population growth, but because the doom and disaster a negative growth rate would cause upon our current economic models we allow shit tons of legal immigration to maintain growth.
Japan just passed a radical (for Japan) change to their immigration rules, to allow in more foreign workers in a number of low-skill categories. It’s also comparatively easy for skilled workers to get visas. (The bigger problem is making Japanese companies treat these workers as equals...but they’re coming around.)
Now, contrast to the current reactionary government of the United States, and their attitude toward immigration. The two countries are clearly moving in opposite directions.