philly rabbit
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Japan, it's population peaking at 128 million in 2010, will lose 25 million by 2050. A fifth of her population will disappear and one in six Japanese will be over 80. Japan's medium age will rise from 45 to 55. And these projections assume a rise in the fertility of Japanese women that is nowhere in sight. In March 2010 the birth rate in Japan had fallen to 1.09 children per woman and if current trends continue, Japan's population will fall to 95 million by 2050, from about 127 million now, a loss of 32 million people. At this rate, a fourth of the nation will vanish in four decades. With as much as 40 percent of it's population over 65 years of age, no matter how innovative the work force, Japan will simply be too old to compete.
Noting that births in Japan in 2008 were 40 percent below what they were in 1948, fertility, migration and mortality trends are propelling Japan into a degree of aging that is usually the work of science fiction. Japan's fertility level has been below replacement levels since the 1970s. Japan has become the oldest nation on earth.
Japan's immigration policy hasn't budged one iota being a 0 immigration policy. Go to a Japanese consulate and tell them that you want to immigrate to Japan and they will literately laugh at you. Japan is for Japanese, they will tell you. The Japanese are turning their collective backs on westerners who keep telling them to open their borders and repopulate themselves with immigrants. The Japanese appear to be prepared to accept their fate, a dying population and declining nation, rather than adopt the American solution to it's ever aging population, replacement of her departing native born with millions of immigrants.
The Japanese will not commit to the cultural disintegration of their people by following the west's lead and advice. They'd rather die than switch.
Noting that births in Japan in 2008 were 40 percent below what they were in 1948, fertility, migration and mortality trends are propelling Japan into a degree of aging that is usually the work of science fiction. Japan's fertility level has been below replacement levels since the 1970s. Japan has become the oldest nation on earth.
Japan's immigration policy hasn't budged one iota being a 0 immigration policy. Go to a Japanese consulate and tell them that you want to immigrate to Japan and they will literately laugh at you. Japan is for Japanese, they will tell you. The Japanese are turning their collective backs on westerners who keep telling them to open their borders and repopulate themselves with immigrants. The Japanese appear to be prepared to accept their fate, a dying population and declining nation, rather than adopt the American solution to it's ever aging population, replacement of her departing native born with millions of immigrants.
The Japanese will not commit to the cultural disintegration of their people by following the west's lead and advice. They'd rather die than switch.