Thursday, June 13, 2019

Whistling Through The Graveyard

... and I do mean graveyard. Dig this.
Japan’s birth rate has hit its lowest level since records began in 1899.

The number of births last year fell to a post-war low of 918,397 – a decline of 27,668 since the previous record low in 2017.

In the late 1940s, the number of births stood at about 2.7 million, according to The Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

The latest figures released by the Japanese government showed the country’s population decline - the number of deaths minus births - totalled 444,085, which was worse than the previous largest drop in 2017.
Now dig what they say the reason for the decline is.
A ministry official said: “Economic conditions and the difficulty of simultaneously managing both work and child-rearing are considered the major reasons behind the declining birth rates. We need to promote policies to set up an environment where people who want to have children can have children and raise them at ease.”
Below is a photo of postwar Japan, back when economic conditions were so good that women were eager to have children.


The problem isn't economics and the solution isn't policy. This year's 440K population drop will become next year's 490K population drop.

It's almost like there was a purpose to men identifying as men and playing the role of a man and women identifying as women and playing the role of women.

Nah. Equality now!

2 comments:

Foxfier said...

In Japan, it's more likely the issue of women being expected to work, and to be a full-time stay at home, at the same time.

And they don't have a cultural allowance for failure.

Ilíon said...

Pace Mark Steyn, I believe that Japan will eventually recover from its current demographic death-spiral ... and that it will still be Japan when it does.

Due to the deliberate massive importation of our replacements, I'm not so sanguine about the prospects for America or the Western European nations.