A world in which people return to the land and produce mostly, if not entirely, their own food is defined as subsistence. Local food production is a necessity a

A world in which people return to the land and produce mostly, if not entirely, their own food is defined as subsistence. Local food production is a necessity and even their minister of agriculture finds the possibility of future famine to be real, but there are limited incentives even as young people consider starting farms: https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japan's-food-self-sufficiency-alarmingly-low-72-mil-could-go-hungry-magazine-says https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japan's-f... Most people are leaving rural japan to find more than subsistence as I would imagine many people on this platform have left one place or another to find means that ideally outstrip their needs and allow them to save for the future. Japan has a serious depopulation problem and is the first country to tip into negative population growth without much policy change to soften it. The results are not good. They are things like: - not being able to move out of your parents house - not being able to have kids - old people starving to death -limited food production, limited social services (where's the tax base), greater divides between density and rural life Like others mention Japan needs to have leadership that is not xenophobic and begin to embrace policies that encourage family growth including supporting women who work rather than continuing to build on female invisible labor at home and a salaryman effort in the public sphere.