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More like current Japanese economy makes it fucking hard to live out traditional Japanese family image. Life-long cushy salaryman jobs are sparse. Yet Japanese
by mantas 8y ago
More like current Japanese economy makes it fucking hard to live out traditional Japanese family image. Life-long cushy salaryman jobs are sparse. Yet Japanese women who stick to the traditional image won't take up a dude working McJob. The only way save face (which is one of top priorities in Japan if not Asia) is to pretend you have no interest in that at all.
There're quite a few young people living out the traditional Japanese dream though. Birth rates seem to be coming back up too. Possibly because Tokyo (where most young people are concentrated, the rest of the country is more or less dying) is slowly becoming child-friendly. More spacious housing for affordable (as that can be) prices, more public facilities for children and child care/schools seem to be getting cheaper.
- mercurysmessage 8y agoI don't know why people always focus on the birth rate in Japan. It's pretty standard to developed nations, and there are nations with a lower birth rate.
- mantas 8y agoTheir birth rate is now getting back up. It used to be quite a bit worse. On top of that, average Japanese life expectancy is rather long. Which makes it skewed towards elders. And on top of that, they have strict immigration and don't feel like going Euro way at all. Thus population decline is massive compared to western europe.
- ameister14 8y agoIt's because it's been below population replacement since the 1960's, so the age-sex pyramid has been inverted for a long time and it used to be unusual.