Japan’s Schools Are Dying: Brutal Reality of Japan’s Low Birth Rates & Population Decline

Japan has a massive population even with the declining birth rate.

The issue is everyone lives in cramped spaces in the greater Tokyo area (population of 40 million people – more than the population in Canada).

If the population spread out places wouldn’t be so barren. However for whatever reason the government doesn’t see the value in it.

I’m so shy that having a whole school to myself, especially the library? Would have been a dream for young me.

So sad. I taught in the JET program in an Osaka high school in the 2010s. It has already closed down.

In the near future there will be couples wanting to move to the countryside to afford a house to raise a family in, but there won't be nearby schools for their children.
If I was a teacher (or more entrepreneurial hah), I'd make a proper international school which only teaches online. That way parents would be able to live wherever.

I think it's cool to have gone to school. It's a unique experience and exposure to a really cool culture…if I were born Japanese…id appreciate some cool stuff. I mean, it's so calm and peaceful. The only thing there is is less competition during exams. You probably could take the exams from a place of less competition to get into elite Schools.

Thank you for talking about the topic!
Might be a me problem, but your mid video patreon advertisement really sounds like a you are ending the video. I had a jump scare when I realized you are still talking in the background. Also, a small nitpick 10:21 small year mistake in there
That said… Population decline is one thing, but I really wonder what's gonna happen with AI, and if that's gonna end up replacing teacher jobs.

Random idea: but what if we took these old abandoned schools and turned them into Japanese language schools for foreigners with the idea of “experiencing japanese school life while learning japanese”

thank goodness the women only universities are failing and going co-ed now. should happen everywhere hopefully.

If this keeps on going.. ALT jobs will drop significantly… that's not a good sign for many who are trying to enter Japan for professional and personal reasons

How many teachers'salaries does it require for the one student school? Is that a good use of tax payer money?

neoliberalism killing japan.

Japan needs to stop forcing men to work 15 hour days and punishing pregnant workers.

This is happening all over the world. In America, Less people are having children, and those that do have kids are moving away. No kids no students which means no money for schools. It's that simple, and I have seen a few schools I went to as a child shut down forever. This is becoming almost apocalyptic.

1:40 Is that Sergio Ramos?

Thats really tough

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Maybe birth rates could be fixed by not giving money away, but providing parents with all necessities for children development for free, like housing, education, nutrition etc or by increasing the salary of a bot fathers and mothers to raise the children?

But İ doubt that any company would want to increase the salary of workers who have children.

That was painful to watch, capitalism has really gutted Japan.

They need me for repopulation duties.

I think the problem is that the japanese are too smart. They KNOW that the economy is shit, and they will struggle if they raise families. Meanwhile, in other countries, people KNOW the economy is shit, and STILL they pump out three, four, five freaking children, and they plunge themselves into debt. Sure, Japanese population might be dwindling, but on the upside, the country is amazing, and crimes are very low. The absolute opposite of countries that are overflooding with people who don't know what the hell they're doing.

Basically, Japan is now living in Children of Men era.

If the Red Book of UN have an entry for human nation and ethnic group, Japan will be at the top. It is what it is.