Japan’s population shrinking as marriage and birth rates plummet | 60 Minutes

I can help them

People from Pakistan, Afghanistan,Bangladesh and many more countries from the continent of Africa can help you with multiplying your population.We are ready.

Seriously, you just said the declining sun?

This is by design.

Change the system by not being a Ponzi scheme. Stop with the duplication of services and when that village ceases turn it into farmland to be more self sufficient in foodstuff. Norway has 4 million people and are a top tier country. Make the Best Japan from a smaller population. It’ll run better at 60 million people better larger housing.

Meiji (1868–1912):
1872: ~35 million
1912: ~50 million
Taisho (1912–1926):
1920: ~56 million
1926: ~60 million
Showa (1926–1989):
1935: ~69 million
1945: ~72 million
1960: ~94 million
1989: ~123 million
Heisei (1989–2019):
2000: ~127 million
2008 (peak): ~128 million
2019: ~126 million
Reiwa (2019–present):
2020: ~125 million
2023: ~124 million
2024: ~123.5 million (est.)

The Rich took it all…the Rich got Richer the middle class got poorer

Give poorer people more money. As long as younger people feel they have no or little excess income, most of them won't even consider having kids. And poor men especially seem less like eligible partner and father material to women. That still might not do it, of course. Being able to see the horrors of the world and of history, a decent number of us have become anti-natalist as a matter of principle. But it's the obvious first step. And I don't mean some stupid baby bonus of a few grand. Lower income and wealth inequality very significantly. Albeit, having seen how stagnant and weak politics has been since the financial crisis, I suspect we'll have to get to a total state of crisis before anyone has the guts to tap the rich. Maybe when their businesses can't find employees and their properties can't find renters they'll realise that dependence doesn't only go one way.

When governments and citizens are dictated to by Banks and Companies-(globally) it creates the environment where- "to have is good" , more wealth , better living etc. education- which in itself is a good thing, but eventually the sales pitch of the " Your hard work will pay off" eventually leads to "the haves and the have nots" – and eventually you will have not!. A countries wealth is in its people. Fostering a nation of workers does not foster a family nor a future succession plan. Japans obsession with economy (sold by the west) overrides humanity, and families. No humanity, no family, no economy. Eventually the poorest most uneducated nations of the world will be the ones smiling, as they will be still giving birth. And economic nations have created and environment where they will only be able to survive by immigration workforces. So eventually unique cultural identity will be something of a faint memory to history.

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when did Dmitry Medvedev become a journalist working for 60 minutes?

Japan, South Korea….both very sad places in this regard.

4:08 India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Pakistan etc. These countries have the same burden as the West just vice versa. There are too many dependend below the pyramid

Make overtime illegal and give everybody with less than two kids free drink tokens on a Friday. But I think population rates are declining everywhere with smart phones at this point. Most of the reason people coupled up in the past was being single was boring and lonely now its easier find distractions.

I love the expression of the onlookers at 9:50 as the speaker begins to cry. It is considered impolite to express outward emotion. I'm an American and recall being on a train in Tokyo when a human incident or suicide occurred. It was actually an attempt. The voiced-intercom calmly reported why the train had come to an abrupt stop – "a human incident." Later I read about it on social media; a platform worker had jumped (and lived) because, as he reported, he was under a horrendous amount of stress. Unlike the U.S., people did not put their hands over their hearts and mouth, expressing their hope that he get the help he needs, Japanese people wrote in unison that he was impolite for interrupting everyone else's day with his emotions. Japanese people actually pay others to privately watch them cry; I asked my university students why and the young students of about 20 years said it was shameful. One remarked, "I haven't cried in front of any one, not family or friend, since I was nine years old." Look at the body language of the woman seated at 9:50. Look at the man next to her, his mouth and eyes. Fascinating.

The gaijin are taking over slowly..

Immigration reform

coming to a western country near you

Overall, less population is a good thing, no? Japan alone has over 120 million people, it's not sustainable at that rate.

Almost all African nations have great population booms yet they are the most 'impoverished'.

So basically capitalism worked well for a while. Now it doesn’t

I honestly dont believe that India and China have that many people. Its all to have us think that "we are too many". Nope. There are too many corrupt politicians, thats the problem.

it is a absurd that rich and developed countries can not have higher birth rate, but undeveloped country like Philippines, India, have demographic dividend.

This is scary as these countries aren't even that "rural" being a couple of hours away from the big cities! Japanese people are just not having kids!

It's a correction, affordable housing and food are so much harder to find now due to population growth.