Japan's Initiative for Population Growth: Plan for local populations due in January

[TopCat]

I honestly think the Government just needs to relax the immigration limitations. I've noticed the biracial Japanese families tend to have a healthy amount of children.

For example, Pakistani-Japanese families or Indian-Japanese families have any where between 3-4 children. As compared to the traditional Japanese families of having 1-2 children.



I think a nation should balance productivity with a healthy family proliferation rate. The problem with Japanese nowadays is that there is too much emphasis on professionalism , and uber-work. To the point that professionals don't have time to raise families, or do so later in life.

Our Government needs to entice more women to be stay at home mothers. Or provide greater subsidies and maternity leave benefits.

Lessen the burden on ladies with shorter working hour. Encourage to marry before 22 and have first baby before 25. If the first baby born in early twenties or late teens then the probability of taking more babies are high. If a girl takes baby after 25, then she will have serious health issues of taking more child.

A few things can work;

-Reduce working hours. Men and women feel tired and don't want to make love.
-Encourage marriage amongst young Japanese. Give tax breaks, subsidised loans for buying houses and so forth.
-Equal pay for the sexes and give Japanese women flexible working opportunities, so the work and life balance is kept.
-Some more public holidays will help.
-Have government campaigns encouraging folks to get together.
-The media should also have those crazy game shows, but this time they involve meeting and going out with the opposite sex.

Good luck Japan, may you multiply amen.

yes go back to basics. Early marriage is the answer.

 

[Brainsucker]

Well, I thought it is JAV that is responsible for Japanese population decline. But maybe I'm wrong

 

[Viet]

Japan should ease immigration and allow skilled workers and professionals to enter, with option to become citizens of the country. Many developed nations do that. The US, EU, Canada, Australia, etc.

Another radical thought is to seek a state union with Vietnam
We are sinized and have a growing population. With money and expertise, Vietnam would become as modern and advanced as Japan today, within a generation. East Germany is the best example.

 

[Luftwaffe]

A few things can work;

-Reduce working hours. Men and women feel tired and don't want to make love.
-Encourage marriage amongst young Japanese. Give tax breaks, subsidised loans for buying houses and so forth.
-Equal pay for the sexes and give Japanese women flexible working opportunities, so the work and life balance is kept.
-Some more public holidays will help.
-Have government campaigns encouraging folks to get together.
-The media should also have those crazy game shows, but this time they involve meeting and going out with the opposite sex.

Good luck Japan, may you multiply amen.

lol Japanese entertainment media do show adult crazy game shows. Ask @Nihonjin1051

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This is a tough one.
Since the 1990's bubble burst wages have probably stagnated.
People get used to their standard of living and when they see marriage/children causing a big hit to it that can cause big problems. Nobody wants to live a life worse off than they had with their parents. So if their parents had say 2 kids and in the current condition they feel they could only match that lifestyle by having 1 then they will have only one.

If their parents had only 1 and they feel they can't match that then they will have zero.

The reverse is true if they are doing better economically than their parents. If their parents could afford only one but their children suddenly had a rise in their standard of living they would easily have more than one since they could maintain as good a lifestyle as they had with their parents.

 

[somsak]

any group with one child per parents is mathematically proven that its will go extinction in long term

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

This is a tough one.Since the 1990's bubble burst wages have probably stagnated.
People get used to their standard of living and when they see marriage/children causing a big hit to it that can cause big problems. Nobody wants to live a life worse off than they had with their parents. So if their parents had say 2 kids and in the current condition they feel they could only match that lifestyle by having 1 then they will have only one.

If their parents had only 1 and they feel they can't match that then they will have zero.

The reverse is true if they are doing better economically than their parents. If their parents could afford only one but their children suddenly had a rise in their standard of living they would easily have more than one since they could maintain as good a lifestyle as they had with their parents.

This is a rich country's problem. Most Japanese will prefer buying a new shoes than to have a stinkin' brat to take care of. While in less developed country like mine a parents sees their children as an asset.

The only way out for Japan is to start accepting immigrants, unfortunately though they're too pigheaded about it:

First steps: At an event in January 2013, former Tokyo Immigration Bureau chief Hidenori Sakanaka presents Indonesian Dewi Rachmawati with a prize for an essay she wrote about her struggle to become a nurse in Japan. | YOSHIAKI MIURA

Hidenori Sakanaka’s message is very clear: Only immigration can save Japan. Sakanaka, a former Justice Ministry official and director of the Tokyo Immigration Bureau, proposes bringing in 10 million migrants over 50 years. In making his case for opening up the country, he cites a mountain of demographic evidence, specifically the declining and aging population and the shrinking workforce.

Sakanaka’s proposal is perfectly logical and rational, but what he fails to understand — and this is rather surprising given his bureaucratic background — is that policymaking is rarely based on logic.

Japan's 'no immigration principle' looking as solid as ever | The Japan Times

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This is a rich country's problem.

You are absolutely correct.
But then you run into the problem of overpopulation instead of maintaining a population.

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

You are absolutely correct.
But then you run into the problem of overpopulation instead of maintaining a population.

There's the double edged sword. I hope the government will reinstall the "two-child policy again."

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

There's the double edged sword. I hope the government will reinstall the "two-child policy again."

It's very hard to switch from developing world to developed and vice versa.

For a developed country with a population decline they are going to have to accept a step down in their standard of living in order to maintain their population (or ease immigration).

For a developing country to move to developed they are going to have to deal with a large population base and trying to get them all a step up.

 

[somsak]

It's very hard to switch from developing world to developed and vice versa.

For a developed country with a population decline they are going to have to accept a step down in their standard of living in order to maintain their population (or ease immigration).

For a developing country to move to developed they are going to have to deal with a large population base and trying to get them all a step up.

Large population base is good thing. In fact East Asia miracles are based on large population. So called Demographic windows cannot occur without large population based. However, if one continue 1 children fertility rate forever, this is under replacement rate. The population will extinct.

Mathematically it can be shown that the population will extinct in

log base 2 of (#population) generations.

I don't think extinction is a good thing for Japan.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Mathematically it can be shown that the population will extinct in log base 2 of (#population) generations.

I think everybody understands the math.
The problem is how to convince a high standard of living country to take a step down. You want to ask city people to move to the countryside and have a big farm and thus a big family?

Remember they have to do the opposite of what China is doing.

 

[Counter-Errorist]

Knowing Japan, they'll likely come up with a vending machine that makes babies

 

[somsak]

Knowing Japan, they'll likely come up with a vending machine that makes babies

artificial wombs?

 

[INDIC]

The solution is lies in giving more government and industry sponsored incentives and less working hours for women expecting babies or having young babies.