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its got to help, but the main thing Japan needs to do is de-Toykoify the country. Urban density is probably the main causes for decline in fertility, and Tokyo

its got to help, but the main thing Japan needs to do is de-Toykoify the country. Urban density is probably the main causes for decline in fertility, and Tokyo is the worst example globally of runaway urban agglomeration.

tokioyoyo 2y ago
People choose to live in Tokyo. They tried to give a buttloads of incentives to move to the countryside, but few take them, because… city life is just easier, more convenient and more fun. But I still agree, it might affect it in a roundabout way. When you live in a city, you have more opportunities to do anything else other than having children. Also, Japan’s fertility rate isn’t that much lower than Canadas. They just got to the problem earlier than anyone else, so trying to resolve it with any possible means. The biggest problem still continues though — there’s no real reason or incentive to have more than 2 children, other than “for the good of the society”. And women are less likely to sacrifice bare minimum of 6 years of their lives to give birth to 3 children. Especially when they can do… literally anything else. Every educated girl friend of mine thinks exactly the same way as well. Some had a child or two, but more than that it’s just a burden to the couple. I’m obviously simplifying things, and once the third child is born, they’re loved and etc. But it’s going to be a very hard sell for anyone.
Hilift 2y ago
Depopulation resulted in an oversupply of nine million housing vacancies outside the cities. Tokyo pays people a million yen per child to move out of the city. It looks like the population plateaued about 10 years ago and is trending down slightly. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/21671/tokyo/population https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/21671/toky...

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its got to help, but the main thing Japan needs to do is de-Toykoify the country. Urban density is probably the main causes for decline in fertility, and Tokyo

by hunglee2 2y ago

tokioyoyo 2y ago
People choose to live in Tokyo. They tried to give a buttloads of incentives to move to the countryside, but few take them, because… city life is just easier, more convenient and more fun. But I still agree, it might affect it in a roundabout way. When you live in a city, you have more opportunities to do anything else other than having children. Also, Japan’s fertility rate isn’t that much lower than Canadas. They just got to the problem earlier than anyone else, so trying to resolve it with any possible means. The biggest problem still continues though — there’s no real reason or incentive to have more than 2 children, other than “for the good of the society”. And women are less likely to sacrifice bare minimum of 6 years of their lives to give birth to 3 children. Especially when they can do… literally anything else. Every educated girl friend of mine thinks exactly the same way as well. Some had a child or two, but more than that it’s just a burden to the couple. I’m obviously simplifying things, and once the third child is born, they’re loved and etc. But it’s going to be a very hard sell for anyone.
Hilift 2y ago
Depopulation resulted in an oversupply of nine million housing vacancies outside the cities. Tokyo pays people a million yen per child to move out of the city. It looks like the population plateaued about 10 years ago and is trending down slightly. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/21671/tokyo/population https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/21671/toky...