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Japan asks young people why they are not marrying amid population crisis
- bell-cot 2y agoJapan's real concern here is depopulation, as the article later notes. Just last year, The Guardian covered ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/baby-boomtown-does-nagi-hold-the-secret-to-repopulating-japan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/baby-boomtown-... ) a Japanese town which was sustaining 2X the Japanese national birth rate. (The Guardian is a very pleasant source of news. Beyond that, it's best to keep your expectations low.) One wonders just how dire the problem would need to become, before the Japanese government would resort to measures which had a real-world history of actually working.
- talldayo 2y ago> measures which had a real-world history of actually working. Malthusianism?
- xenospn 2y agoWomen in Japan: “we can’t get a job after giving birth, no help with child care, husbands out drinking with their boss every night, we don’t want this” Japanese government: “hmmm… what could the problem be? Let’s set up a commission to investigate this obscure problem! Our top men are on it.”