People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
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People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
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Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#2It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#3It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
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Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#4It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
> let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
Impossible.
Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#5It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
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They are referring to:
a) the fact that Japan's birthrate is below the number needed to sustain the current population
b) the fact that Japan is ethnically homogenous (98.5% ethnically Japanese), and has very limited channels for immigration, meaning that japan, with the policies that exist today, will not be able to significantly mitigate the population decline by accepting immigrants.
Japan takes a very different approach compared to countries like Canada, which is a melting pot of cultures and which has an increasing population largely due to immigration
Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
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They are referring to: a) the fact that Japan's birthrate is below the number needed to sustain the current population b) the fact that Japan is ethnically homogenous (98.5% ethnically Japanese), and has very limited channels for immigration, meaning that japan, with the policies that exist today, will not be able to significantly mitigate the population decline by accepting immigrants. Japan takes a very different a…
Yeah, the US and Canada are the only two first world countries not slated for long-term population decline due to immigration. Japan is going to have to be more welcoming of non-Japanese people.
Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#7It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
In the long term human populations have fluctuated wildly. As demographics get bad and Japan gets poorer I'd bet they will start having more children.
Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#8It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
I hope they make a success story of what a stable country with a reasonable population can look like, although its incredibly complex to tell without the years to measure it
Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#9It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
Their culture is the reason that they're fading away. Perhaps it's time to change some parts in big ways in order to protect other parts.
Re: People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are referring to: a) the fact that Japan's birthrate is below the number needed to sustain the current population b) the fact that Japan is ethnically homogenous (98.5% ethnically Japanese), and has very limited channels for immigration, meaning that japan, with the policies that exist today, will not be able to significantly mitigate the population decline by accepting immigrants. Japan takes a very different a…
Yeah, the US and Canada are the only two first world countries not slated for long-term population decline due to immigration. Japan is going to have to be more welcoming of non-Japanese people.
None of the countries you mention have ages old strong own culture to preserve really (except first nations but for various reasons their culture is not US or Canada culture).
So Japan's policy is not unreasonable. You can become a proper Japanese if you want to (are willing to culturally integrate), it's just that not many people do. Without it you'd be trading off death of country for death of culture. Contrast to China or Thailand where AFAIK you are always second class citizen legally if you are "wrong" ethnicity.