Will Japan grow its population before it’s too late?

15 comments

1. > What if a hypothetical government, overtaxed by an aging, shrinking population, decided to ask its seniors to make the ultimate national sacrifice to voluntarily die?

   MP Taro Aso tried that already. It didn’t work.

2. No.

3. I mean, it’s too late already. If we had a baby boom starting today, many of the issues would not be fixed.

4. lol no japan is fucked

5. Probably not.

6. We need immigrants into this country. Immigrants who could start earning and spending and paying taxes now would give us a 20-something year head start even if everyone started popping off babies right now. But I don’t know why anyone would want to come here just so all there taxes can go to pay for healthcare for octogenarians who hate them anyway.

7. Grow…No. Stop the bleeding…No. it’ll hit some level then plateau

8. It seems to me that they don’t want to pay to have children because foreigners would be the first to sign up and “get busy”.
   Such economical promotion for having more babies would only bring more ethnic disparity since the Japanese no longer interested in “gettin’ jiggy”

9. The old guys in charge thought shrinking wages, increasing prices, and creating a general cross-country sense of malaise would result in people wanting to bring life into this existence?

10. If the JCP and the Social Democratic Party were given free reign to run the government, that might change, but it is not to be wished for.

11. Let’s be honest, Japan only innovates from the ashes of near total annihilation. So, let’s see where this slow moving disaster takes us.

12. No. Definitely not. Unless potential parents start loving coupons instead of money.

13. In on the 10th japan population thread of the week

14. Nope.

15. My wife and I are settling in the States before having kids. Wages are too low to support a family, especially now with inflation and energy prices rapidly rising. I’d like to be present in my kid’s lives, but the demands of Japanese work culture don’t allow for that. My kids would also be ‘hafus’ and never be considered fully Japanese (unless they excel in a field and the press makes them a token of Japanese diversity for a month). I like Japan as a place to visit, but not to live. A lot of social reforms need to take place before I’d willingly settle here long term.