Japan's Depopulation Crisis

Survival of the fittest right? Japanese aren't fit to survive as a people

Hang on, you say that the cause is "a system that prioritizes economic output over social well-being", while earlier recognising the role that rigid traditional attitudes play in inefficiency, overwork, and gender disparities. It would seem that 'social well-being' IS part of the problem, in that it is prioritized over individual well-being.

if only most countries would “shrink” and embrace antinatalism and stop having kids so the world can actually heal itself, there cannot be new without first the destruction of the old, the issue isn’t few houses and what not it’s to many people the solution is less people not more housing, Japan has even killed most of it’s natural predators and invasive cats rule the island threatening even more native Japanese wildlife, all that to me is worth more than just so dumb capitalism and people not having babies, the only reason why countries freak four when people aren’t having kids is that they won’t have fresh meat to exploit, as humans we need to move away from a material money based society into a free market society everyone shares everyone cares we all have something to bring to the table I don’t understand why humans need money to achieve great things.

Gender gap aspect of this video was pure bullshit. Women earning more money has little to do with the populations reproduction rate. In fact, women in the workforce reduces wages, increases childcare cost, and reduces the rate of long term couple formation. Any country that was smart would try to reduce the amount of women in the workforce.

Well that was dismal. Poor Japanese folk. They don't even know that they're doomed do they?
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Thanks to authoritarians... both those in business and those in governance, life is increasingly... not worth living.

Japanese people have this mindset that sex is a perverted thing and seen as something only creeps are into. And they put their co-workers and friends before their romantic relationships.

Meanwhile South Korea:

Hold my beer!

Japanese mens suffering the most in such time.

Idiocracy. The number of children people have are proportionate to their level of intelligence! 😳

Japan still has too big a population to feed itself. As the climate crisis grows worse and worse and as the human population continues to increase, imported food will grow expensive for Japan.

An episode on the Venezuela election would go crazy

Universe 25

Japan is basically Eastern America at this point 🇺🇸

Japanese birth rate is still low in 50s
So I don’t surprise

Thomas jefferson was right on agrarianism! 🌴🌳🌲

Your cost of living index confuses me, I can't find a single data source that says Tokyo is more expensive than new york

Japan won't "depopulate" - that's libertarian slash business nonsense. What they want is a growing population of young and mostly unemployed workers desperate to find any job at any wage.
When a birth rate drops the population doesn't disappear into oblivion. What happens is a bulge of ageing people that represent a growing proportion of the whole...for only about their lifespan. Eventually the population as a whole stabilizes to match the new birth rate. Literally the best thing to happen possible. Wages go up, pollution goes down, roads empty a bit thank the gods, home prices drop, and employers desperately try to get people to overpopulate again so they can get their cheap paeudoslaves back.
The Black Death CREATED the middle class.

I think the problem is a lot more complex than better pay and better rights for women/increased child support, because if it was as simple as that northern European countries would not be facing a rapidly declining birth rate

Capitalism is not the problem, it is the acceptance of being an American vassal. They have sacrificed their wellbeing for the prosperity of American billionaires, their financial & political elite.

I have to point out one observation though, for a socialist channel to request a somewhat young audience for sponsorship kind off defeats the purpose but it is the American way (capitalism) even after allowing a sponsor. 😂😂😂 Hypocrisy at its finest.

Still kept bouyant by loads of tourism and foriegn akia investments.
Cant say the same for the US lol.

Japan is second highest country with birth rate in East Asia.

Oh no!!!

capitalis made have children so Expensive.
South Korea🇰🇷 0,72
Taiwan🇹🇼 0.85
Singapura🇸🇬 0.97
China🇨🇳 1.00
Thailand 🇹🇭1.00
Spain 🇪🇸 1.16
Jepang🇯🇵 1.20
Italy🇮🇹 1.20
Russia 🇷🇺 1,42
Germany🇩🇪 1,46
Türkiye🇹🇷 1,51
UK 🇬🇧 1,53
Brazil 🇧🇷 1,56
Australia🇦🇺 1,63
USA 🇺🇸 1,66
Iran 🇮🇷 1,66
Bhutan 🇧🇹 1,79
India🇮🇳 2.00
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 All contry under 2.1

So… Japan is an abused corporate colony with a severe identity crisis. Yeah, that can’t be healthy. Truth be told, the look of their anima makes this fact plain to see. Anybody that has seen dragon ball Z already knows they have “issues” they can’t kiss white/blonde ass hard enough, non of this is surprising.

Scandinavian countries have the most equalityl, the most generous welfare and childcare of all countries. Yet birth rate numbers for the ethnic population is below replacement levels and they are forced to rely on immigration.
It's obvious the primary reason for people not having families is a change in culture rather than affordability. People do not want to have kids.

I feel like the analyis was lacking in this episode, i started getting excited to see where you were going next and then the video ended!

It's a lie. If it were true, then why is Japan so eager to be the tip of the spear in the coming US war with China?

So when can i get one of them breeding visas

The real estate information is badly exaggerated. Small studio apartments are typically 15 to 22 sq meters, not under nine. The moving in costs are grossly exaggerated and sound like a bad version of what happened thirty years ago. It does not cost over 10k to move into a rental place. Few people in Tokyo will spend half their salary on rent as quite a few people do in London. Since food, eating out etc. are cheaper in Tokyo, I'd rather live there on an average 25 year old salary than London, SF, etc. Childcare costs are given for the US, not Japan, where they are heavily subsidized and you do not pay UK/US type rates unless you are a big earner. In the countryside, you can get full time childcare for an under 3 for typically 30,000 yen a month, not the 200-250,000 yen a month it would cost in the UK. When asked, Japanese people may still moan about 30,000 yen but that's because they have no idea about what things cost overseas.

Japan has 127M on a small Island, Russia has 144M in a huge country.

Japan is 44th in the population density ranking. I don’t see much of a problem for anyone if it slides down 10 or 20 places. I see more of a problem with North Korea and China threatening it with their armies snd missiles

TBH, every developed country is shrinking.

Japan is a vassal of the USA. It is not a sovereign nation. The Japanese abandoned their Eastern identity in favour of the West. It adopted American capitalism lock, stock and barrel. Japan bows to the U.S. governments every demand, sacrificing their own interests, rational and development, just to please the political elites in Washington D.C. They have chosen to go along with America’s disastrous foreign policies that hobble their growth, development and Fri-political security. They could have reconciled with China and become economic and strategic partners. But they have chosen to be silent and allow the Americans to use them as necessary idiots. Same goes for South Korea - another puppet vassal nation of the U.S. The Japanese have themselves to blame. They can still kick the Americans out and form new strategic alliances with China and Russia if they were smart enough to have long term vision for their fading nation.

Birthrate are declining around the world, except for the most destitute regions of Africa. Could it be that humanity has subconsciously realized the need to reduce the human population to an environmentally sustainable level?

The % sign after the TFR is nonsense, sorry.

Other than that a quite good vid.

And it is a very relevant vid for today. Many countries are in a similar situation today like Japan 1985.

My guess is that the USA will organize a new "Plaza Accord", with the main culprit being China today.

Pet Peeve: Shows map of “global north” which includes the entire continent of Australia and New Zealand - two emphatically Southern countries. Meanwhile, you include Russia which has identified itself as part of the “global south” despite being the largest and one of the most northern countries on the planet. Previously, the preferred term in geopolitics was the far more useful “developing” and “developed” - and on those measures you might argue that China - shown here is part of the “global south” is more developed than Russia. This is why the terms “global north and global south” are beyond just misleading and geographically incorrect - it’s genuinely meaningless and unhelpful.

As someone who dwells in both the US and Japan, while being from Canada, it’s not as bad as you make out. The median (not average) wage here isn’t very (at all) low, especially compared to the cost of living. Lower-income residents of the US and Canada are much, much worse off. Much. In Japan, cheap apartments are plentiful. They may not be fancy, but they are plentiful. Transportation freedom is for the masses here. Need to cut costs? Sell your car! Because in much of Japan you don’t actually need one to survive. Even so, owning a car seems to be cheaper because they actually sell cheaper cars here, and you never have to drive as far every day due to the lack of sprawl here. Not to mention the much cheaper used market (I suspect the US’s tight used market is one of the results of their massive wealth inequality problem). Childcare? Largely free for lower income people. Clothing? Cheaper than both the US and Canada, if you avoid designer labels. Food? Much cheaper! Even dining out is significantly cheaper and it relates to the cheap real estate market. In fact, Japan has many times more restaurants per capita than both the US and Canada because people dine out here so much more because it’s so much cheaper and more convenient.
Japan is doing fine. We have some challenges, but nothing like those in North America. In fact, I have the choice to raise my daughter in any of these three countries, and I will always choose Japan.
Edit: don’t get me wrong, the problems you point out do exist. Especially gender disparities, overwork, and the financial incentives to NOT procreate. The Japanese government absolutely is not addressing their population decline in a meaningful way. They seriously need to address the fertile population’s financial concerns, which is the #1 cause that I can see

gender wage gap is a superficial view on a complex system, unlike women, men will much more often work harder, negotiate and chase harder for better wages/promotions, and find fulfillment in achieving huge goals set by companies. the burden of earning is greater on the man than the woman.
the already present economic system that doesn't allow a man to earn to raise a family and for a woman to worry only about her children and house work is the core issue that should be addressed.

Just get more immigration. Reduce working hours of Japanese too,

If you want to live in Japan and find an apartment, find a LeoPalace apartment. Also, you can find it through a middle man ( gaijinpot ). That way, you might be lucky and don’t have to pay key money. Also, live in Saitama or Kanagawa instead of Tokyo. Rent can be 57000¥ per month. This is what happened with me.

I would like a follow-up video on why the government of Japan won't do anything about climate change

If working 60 hours a week endes up killing you that means your week in India we normally work 10 to 12 hours a day 6 days a week never saw anyone dying from it even in China it is the same

I'm tired of the doom and gloom. Japan will benefit from a lower population. Housing affordability and quality of life will be better for everyone. The population will stabilise at more sustainable levels. They do not need 120+ million people. Even 60 million would be more than enough.

next you'll tell me Apple could one day be bigger than Microsoft

The only crisis is overconsumption and overpopulation.

China has worse birth rates than Japan , just saying.

If you think Japan is bad enough. Take a look at South Korea and China. The capitalism practiced there is more brutal which leads to even lower fertility rate

Japanese corporate culture hardly pursues profits at all cost; there are insane numbers of zombie companies that keep going on losses.

I’d say it’s serfdom at all cost, the workplace being the key social filiation.