Is Gen Z Done With Japan?
Japan’s Gen Z increasingly faces poverty, which is unrecognized. Many are struggling with low incomes, high living costs and student loan debt. The question is, can Japan solve this issue?
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A start to fixing the Japanese economy is the strengthing of the yen. The yen must command value in the economy to motivate Japanese natives to get more of it and use it. How exactly can this be done? That's for the Japan government to figure out, I am doing my own research into the matter as an intellectual exercise.
My favorite thing about this anti-immigrant sentiment is other countries being like "please don't close the border to our people :/ we just want to help" and Americans being like "YES! Close the border for everyone! Specially us" but secretly they mean (specially for non-white Americans, please!) I wish the people of Japan the best of luck! Hopefully you can come together as people and figure it out.
12:09 this guy needs to get kicked out of politics and try to do some work. It's infuriating listening to his bullshit, but of course he doesn't see any problem if he's leeching public money.
As a person from a country that took a lot of Ukrainian refugees compared to our population, I understand the sentiment that Japanese people have about foreigners my people, especially the older generations, despise refugees/immigrants as well with slogans like they are taking are jobs, they are only taking help from the government and are not working (pretty paradoxical if you ask me but who a im to judge) but what those people don't realize is that if you don't cover their needs (basic of course) as well the amount of refugees/immigrants doing crime will skyrocket because how are they supposed to feed themselves and their families without knowing the language yet and being unable to get a job…(I understand Japanese people and support their cause and deserve better but there are always two sides of the coin)
Not surprised your government hates you, after Shinzo’s death they implemented polices that would sabotage the county and then blame the citizens for the issues that are purposefully created by their policies. Here’s another issue, they sold out the country to powers outside of the island, protesting and voting will not change this because your new leaders are unelected officials whose names you can’t look up. They’re going to have to take matters into their own hands when the issue is still solvable but they’re pushovers and not actively noticing the issues, for example did you know that content like this and slander hit pieces are region locked so they can be kept in the dark about the truth.
Why do people turn to the government for help? It's the government that's causing this mess. Just look – the more governments get involved, the worse things get for society and the individuals in it.
Buy Bitcoin or get poor forever, Bircoin is your last chance at wealth
God give us strength. Same thing happening in USA. We need leadership that can help people who want to have children know and what to do in order to be successful don’t we? Society is increasingly fragmented, and it places such a burden on the individual that I don’t think they can bear collectively.
Globalized market, foreign investment and capital raise the price for everyone.
The owning class of the world are getting greedier and greedier. They don’t let normal people have anything.
I would be.
All of the same mistakes Europe made with predictable results, this won't end well for Japan.
जापान में रहने वाले भारतीय, जापान की स्वच्छ और व्यवस्थित संस्कृति का सम्मान नहीं करते। भारतीयों को लगता है कि जापान, गंदे भारत जैसा है।
4:05 random Bahamian, who is he?
the politician with the red hat is a stupid idiot.
Really a big problem, to the guy's point at 13:16 ….something has changed, people indeed used to have more kids with way less money. That's probably because back then it was really more difficult to survive without family, but now the way society has grown and changed, people can live their whole lives without needing to have children as the government provides a safety net when they become older. The family is gone for many people and that's why so many Japanese die alone now. It could also be education that explains the change over time. People are more educated in developed nations now, there is a high correlation with education and birthrates especially as it pertains to educated women, where countries with poorly educated people tend to have the highest birthrates and high education…low birth rates. But does that mean that money isn't the problem in a well educated society….no way, if people have more money and felt secure there's not reason they wouldn't have kids.
This is a problem everywhere, not just in Japan but the solutions will probably be a complete shift about work and society, if AI and Robotics replaces all workers then the whole dynamic changes, and that's most likely where things are headed 20 years from now. So bring on the robotics and AGI, it's probably the only thing that will save us.
@3:41 I need to know where THIS is. The red car will be rescued for sure!
The problem is Capitalism…
THE STRUGGLE IS AROUND THE WORLD, THE UNITED STATES ALSO, ECONOMICALLY AND LOW CHILDBIRTHS. AT SOME POINT, PROBABLY SOON, THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT MUST CHANGE LAWS. Law changes, probably bring in foreigners not so much as workers, but people with a lot of money who can – to put it bluntly help pay taxes – as long as immigrant population is at a strict limit. I know it is very unpopular but fem___m has been a big part of the problem. Childbirths must return up.
MORE BLUNTNESS, I'M SORRY, but a lot of foreign guys would love to have Japanese wives. Ok, if you stay in Japan, you must have a certain amount of money. If the foreign dors not have enough money, wife and foreigner cannot stay permenantly. Very sorry, this may be offensive. OK, ANOTHER IDEA, AND I THINK IT SHOULD BE USED IN THE STATES, ETC. IS SCHOOLS. MASSIVE HOMESCHOOLING! De-emphasize the school system! This world encourage – sorry to offend – mothers stay home to raise children! And opens up many jobs for the men! Even encourages families to have more children! I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA!
It’s the Japanese who are screwing over the Japanese! Keep delivering the tatemai!
Shikata ga nai culture!!! Bye bye japan 🇯🇵!
The old man really missed the mark towards the end. You don’t need kids to be happy and if you want them to have more, help be more financially stable, then.
The fact that some young women feel like they have no choice but to start working in the sex industry is truly alarming…
Please don’t let Kurds keep moving to Japan! They will never assimilate
I think Gen Z (and millennials too) are just seriously fed off everywhere in the world, but somehow the situation in Japan is still not as bad as in other European countries and in the U.S. and if you live outside Tokyo life's still quiet affordable for most.
Seems like Japan is sick of WOKE culture too- that is why Takaichi won. Activists calling Takaichi not a feminist says it all. The Japanese people voted for Takaichi because she is the best candidate, not because she is a woman.
Anyone else upset with the lady who instead of blaming the rude Japanese guy at city hall instead blames foreigners?? The guy at city hall didn't even deny her, just embarrassed her, and so her train of thought is to not take what's rightfully hers, but instead blame foreigners because they have the balls or lack of understanding to take that sort of harassment?? That's not okay… This is also happening in America right now, Dems are trying to pass a bill to make healthcare cheaper/accessible, and Republicans are saying immigrants will get free healthcare meant for the poor, when immigrants are not even eligible to apply for it – it's why the government shut down. Why do people fall for fake news so easily?? smh
Japanese citizens have full access to welfare benefits, where foreigners have limited or no benefit depending on their visa. I'm on my 4th year visa in Japan now, and my husband's uncle (our guarantor) who has lived in Japan 30+ years with PR told us the one thing you should NEVER do is get on welfare because you will be punished. He was abandoned by his Japanese mom (she's in the koseki, husband's uncle is not) and had to take care of himself as a teenager. They changed his 3 year visa to 1. And this is a Nikkei jin.
Gen Z's concerns are 110% legit btw, but foreigners shouldn't be your scapegoat. We barely make any impact, good or bad on Japan, so please focus on the politicians who put us here in the first place.
this is all by design. your leaders have been told from their real higher ups, the ones that control them. LOWER THE POPULATION OR ELSE. they have studied humans very carefully. they know what levers the pull what buttoms to push so that you dont have kids etc. this is population control in this phase. its no coincidence. the rel questions to ask are:
who are these controllers?
what is their next phase of orders after popultion sharp decline?
why should we follow their plans, if at all?
what are alternative solutions?
Japan is so fooooked. I am a 36 year foreign resident of Japan and taxes are ripping me a new *sshole. Japan is a tax regime and it's only going to get worse. The Japanese people individually are too weak and submissive to authority to commit to social change but they need to organize around the concept in money and banking known as social credit monetary ideas first developed by C.H. Douglas implemented by Japan during the 1930s. As I see it this is the only way forward for Japan.
I really hope the new prime minister actually do something for the struggling class.
I have just found this channel. JR you have done a good job with this episode. So Congrats, I appreciate this. I best appreciate the comments of the last 3 speakers, 2 older people, the last young woman. First the responsibility is on the family environment. No one has to pass a test to get a parenting license before getting pregnant. The messages from the parents are the first step in solving this problem. If the parents need life coaching, psychological and financial advice, the community including political and educational and religious leaders need to take responsibility. Prevention is always cheaper than repair after the child has grown past puberty. So where is this community network in raising the kids now? Where are the kindergarten network of parents, where are the grannies and social support that the old man talked about in 1960s? They are all broken compared to today. The parents are still responsible for giving a "We can do it!" spirit into their kids day and night, day after day, year after year. Next level up is the tiny community of people who live next door, across the street, at the local convenience store. This feeling of being appreciated is seen all the time on NHK dramas and reporters visiting local towns during Obon. the third level up is the kindergarten, and elementary school teachers, these people have to give the children the messages of "I can do it!" and "I can learn it!" and "I can serve my teacher!" This doesn't cost any money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can all contribute in our daily lives to this spirit of community. We don't need to ask the government for money. Everything I have said here used to be good common sense. So what has happened?
Please cover the protests in Osaka…. what's going on is truly disturbing please keep japan, Japan….!!
History has shown us that a country experiencing an economic crisis tends to blame minorities. So I don’t want to stay for a long time or even take Japanese citizenship anymore.