Japan's population is heading to 0

Japan NEEDS to clamp down on their working practices. Overworking is causing people to have 0 free time to socialise and spend money. Which is what is causing people to have fewer and fewer relationships

This is happening everywhere to some extent. Young people have it tougher than their boomer parents.

Empty towns are common in Italy and Spain too. Aging population and few babies. It feels like THE END.

I would like to see similar content on Eastern European nations from you. East Europe ( and some southern European nations too) are facing devastating shrinking population yet they get rarely featured in mainstream media.

This issue isn’t just limited to Japan. It is just that Japan is currently in the most advanced stage of shrinking and aging due to low birth rates compared to other countries and that if you look at Japan you see the future for the rest of the world as sooner or later other countries will be where Japan is right now

They need more companies that allow remote work so people can live outside of large cities and make a living.

I am from Nepal 💐🇳🇵💐 most of my relatives had moved to Japan for study but after few years they moved towards Australi ,UK, America and Canada. What you are saying is a ground reality hope Japan will overcome sooner from it ....🙏

My family and I are in rural Hokkaido and have lived in and seen a lot of the abandonment and decay. At the same time, the natural environment and closeness of community and the Japanese people's spirit are really something amazing, despite what's happening around them. I haven't been here that long, but I've seen and experienced the resilience and strength and vitality of humanity here, more than I've ever seen in a country of endless immigration where I came from. And I really don't mind it not "progressing" with the latest ideas from the west. Rural Japan is better off without it, in my humble opinion.

The japan government is quite crazy with their overwork culture, expensive life cost, pro old policy, etc

I have been going to Japan for the last twenty-five years and returned last year after the pandemic. I mostly stayed in Osaka, and I couldn't believe how the number of elderly have grown. I rarely saw any young people; I mostly saw young people when I went downtown.

Extrapolating to zero makes no more sense than saying a growing population will eventually become infinite. As for a shrinking population being a “disaster”… Today, the global population is 8 billion. But just 100 years ago, it was 2 billion. We quadrupled the global population in a century. Two billion people was enough for a thriving civilization, was it not? There is panic about Japan’s population declining to 50 million in the next century, but that was Japan’s population around 1920 - a period where Japan became one of the Great Powers.

Mass inmigratin would just *uck up the country as we've experienced in EU. To me the key would be that companies would allow more flexible work culture, focus on efficiency rather than presence in office, respect work times, open delegations in smaller cities that would allow to live in bigger homes without breaking the bank and focus exremelly in automation.

Declining birth rate and population is not unique in Japan. It is only at the most advanced stage. South Korea, China, Italy and even Poland have birth rates below replacement value. Many other countries, if you strip away immigration, have below replacement birth rates. Immigration is not always a solution for a country that has a homogenous culture and society, as people from other cultures or religions is going to change the characters of the country. In the long run, immigration will make Japan no longer Japanese.

I am German and I have been to Japan in April this year. I was amazed by the technological progressiveness and the way people interact with each other... Even being aware of the downsides like the work culture, I was basically ashamed of how behind my own country is in so many areas. It would really be a loss for the world, if Japan fades away. I really hope they can turn this around.

Pretty much all advanced countries have the problem, unless they import immigrants. It starts with raising taxes, more regulations, more competition for jobs...to the point people find it hard to support a family as it requires life of constant slaving to some corporation.

This is happening worldwide, even in America. Young people today have a lot of issues and are facing many barriers in finding jobs comfortable enough to raise families. The job market is not as great as it was for boomers and silent generation and cost of living is so high these days. Also add the fact that young people today are getting less and less social interaction it is just a recipe for disaster. I hope all this improves , the job market gets better for young men and women, wages increase, and cost of living declines. And also we start moving away from doing everything online and getting more social again

Nowadays people don't want children because life becomes so difficult that everybody is desperate😢

Japan has always been in the future. What's happening in Japan will probably happen in the G7 countries, China, Korea etc. Young people too exhausted from work/life to find romance, individualism making it hard for those who want romance to find someone, and even those who have a partner and money for children will have at most one child.

I don't see any comments or anything with regards to immigration. Canada had over one million foreigners immigrate here in the past year. Japan is very resistant to immigrants b/c they want to keep things mostly with their own culture and people. In order to survive and thrive, they need to allow for more foreigners to immigrate there.

The population of Japan was 126,000,000 in 1995, when I first went there. Many of my students were an only child. They'd me adults themselves now.