Japan ‘on the Verge’ of Societal Collapse
Due to Plummeting Birth Rate, Prime Minister Says
National Review,
by
Ari Blaff
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/25/2023 1:39:25 AM
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida spoke in desperate terms about the country’s cratering birth rate in an address to his nation’s parliament on Monday.
“Now or never when it comes to policies regarding births and child-rearing-it is an issue that simply cannot wait any longer,” Prime Minister Kishida said in a speech marking the new parliamentary session. “The number of births dropped below 800,000 last year.”
“Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society,” he added.
For perspective, Japan experienced nearly 2 million births per year throughout the 1970s.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 1/25/2023 2:04:08 AM (No. 1386643)
Congratulations to Japan for fulfilling one of the demands of the nut jobs in Davos. Zero population growth. Japan's gross of mealworms will be the envy of the rest of the world.
8 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Californian 1/25/2023 3:43:21 AM (No. 1386655)
They're not on the verge of any such thing. Their population growth curve has turned a tiny bit negative. The sky is not falling.
14 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
watashiyo 1/25/2023 3:43:39 AM (No. 1386656)
That's a tough one. Can't force them to have sex. Can't force them to get married. Guys are timid with courtships and girls want guys with careers and money. Government is only looking after young families with kids but has done nothing much economically for single men and women. Some, after experiencing parents' loveless relationship assume the institution of marriage is over-rated and not worth the commitment.
7 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 1/25/2023 4:41:39 AM (No. 1386659)
In the 80's, which was the last time I paid attention to Japan, their cultural emphasis was on fighting ones way up the corporate ladder and working oneself to death. That always has an impact on the family. Back then the pictures looked like a giant anthill, with people going around like robots in perfect synch. Little variation in dress or behavior was allowed. That will take its toll.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LaVallette 1/25/2023 4:45:08 AM (No. 1386661)
When humans try to defy or thwart Nature, and contraception and abortion is a very popular method, it has a very nasty habit of turning around and hit humanity hard in the ass. Once the advanced civilizations of the White and the East Asian yellow races extinct themselves, who will be left to manage the world?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
paleoconserv43 1/25/2023 5:15:34 AM (No. 1386666)
Studies have shown that Japanese men watch even more porn than American men, so that might explain a lot of this. But for generations the Japanese were indoctrinated to believe that their first loyalty was to their corporate employers above family life. It’s going to be hard to change the culture in time.
9 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/25/2023 6:40:59 AM (No. 1386710)
Remember Pearl Harbor.....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
walcb 1/25/2023 7:44:27 AM (No. 1386754)
We could float over a couple million of our illegal aliens if that would help.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/25/2023 7:50:33 AM (No. 1386761)
Gates, the WEF, the EU, Biden and the Rino's want to depopulate the West, and replace them with foreigners. Russia meantime, has killed off all their males in wars, and soon will have no Russians. Russia, the largest land mass on the planet will soon have a population only enough to fill a county. Japan can worry about economic collapse from no population, but they will collapse under debt long before that.
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/25/2023 8:05:28 AM (No. 1386776)
This is real and has been seen coming for decades but noted across ALL the developed countries of the world - not just Japan. Even China is recognizing a future with actual population shrinkage. The causes of non-replacement birth-rates are numerous. In the West, for the sake of the planet, millennials have been deliberately made afraid to have children - and encouraged to remain as children in their own behaviors. This has now been terribly made worse by the increase in death-rates over the last three years as caused by not just by Covid but even more by toxic vaccines and governmental idiocy/malevolence.
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Not much of a surprise. Japanese women are really pretty obnoxious and I cannot blame the men for avoiding them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/25/2023 8:55:06 AM (No. 1386816)
Mark Steyn predicted this back in 2006. He has an article at his website on this exact topic.
https://www.steynonline.com/13208/the-setting-sun
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/25/2023 9:22:29 AM (No. 1386838)
That's what illegal immigrants are for.
There's a whole lot of them at our southern border.
Come on over and grab a bunch!
7 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/25/2023 9:31:43 AM (No. 1386845)
Import Africa. Oh, wait, Japanese ARE actually racists.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 1/25/2023 9:34:18 AM (No. 1386851)
It's not only Japanese women #11. That character trait seems to be a universal trait among most women in the western world. Especially those under the age of 40.
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/25/2023 10:00:07 AM (No. 1386886)
The LEFT has been making this claim about Japan for over 25 years. It's part of an arm-twisting campaign from the Globalist Elites to force Japan into allowing migration from third-world hellholes that the Elites have created through their failed foreign policies and propping up of tyrants and dictators. Japan is not stoopid. Hang tight, Japan, and tell the Elites to pound sand.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/25/2023 11:29:56 AM (No. 1386948)
At least Japan is not being invaded by hordes of illegal invaders swarming across their border and replacing the native Japanese population. The Japanese are keeping their national identity and keeping their country a safe place. Japan is full of "first world problems" and has been fortunate to skip most of the third world problems due to uncontrolled illegal immigration.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 1/25/2023 1:29:30 PM (No. 1387049)
reading a good book on Battle of Midway..
"miracle at midway"
they picked up at least three of our crashed
air crews, tortured them and threw them overboard
nice country..
turn out the lights when you run out of population..
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/25/2023 1:36:22 PM (No. 1387057)
The demands of work and balancing it with a wife, home and family are too much for some. America has a similar problem with the white race but our minorities continue to multiply because our collective genius has found a way where white people pay for everything so minorities no longer have to work, just raise a family. What are they going to do when they reach their ultimate goal, getting rid of 100% of the white people?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
paral04 1/25/2023 2:11:52 PM (No. 1387089)
People have been raised to want everything now and not to work and make plans for the future. Raising a family is hard work if you want to do it right. More time should be spent celebrating families and not air-headed celebrities and sport's heroes.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
msjena 1/25/2023 2:24:40 PM (No. 1387106)
Once the rate goes negative, the population declines rapidly. So the PM is not wrong.
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