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Answerman - Why Is Japan's Population Declining?

Do you even follow up on current events?

I recall there being numerous op-ed articles on the interrelations between birthrates, the popularity of the internet as a social avenue and the global decline in wealth amongst younger generations. Not that I am in a position to make assertions on the matter, but the circles I frequent certainly consist of very few people with the wherewithal or intent to produce their own heirs.

Urm... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Muslims are committing terrorism at record high - and increasing - rates. And, to cut you off at the pass, it doesn't matter a damn whether they're anointed as "real" Muslims by the Progressive Society of Muslim Certification: they're still acting in the name of Allah. Refusing the acknowledge that this is jihad rather than random terrorism does nothing to stop it.

Mongolia has an even bigger problem with low birth rates. In a country smaller than Alaska*, it has only about 3,081,677 people. In comparison, my home city of Phoenix has 1,563,025 people. That is, if you doubled Phoenix's population, that would be more than Mongolia's.

*If you combine this country with the state of Georgia, then it would be slightly bigger than Alaska).

So otaku delights are to blame?

Aren't the 200,000 otaku too few in number (according to Sevakis) to impact on the country's total population growth?

Anyway, I think that this is the trend for the world from this point on: people don't have any reason to have kids because they have the social security system to support them in their old age (before that was the main reason for people to have kids: support in their old age).

In the US population is not declining thanks to the immigrants, who are mostly Latinos Trump wants to keep out.

So otaku delights are to blame?

Aren't the 200,000 otaku too few in number (according to Sevakis) to impact on the country's total population growth?

Anyway, I think that this is the trend for the world from this point on: people don't have any reason to have kids because they have the social security system to support them in their old age (before that was the main reason for people to have kids: support in their old age).

.......Anyway, I think that this is the trend for the world from this point on: people don't have any reason to have kids because they have the social security system to support them in their old age (before that was the main reason for people to have kids: support in their old age).

Paiprince wrote:

Another victim of the "multicultural" cool-aid and the mantra that Japan is some "inbred cesspool" when it clearly isn't. Guess your endgame goal is to have the whole country have minarets and the entire population to look as mongrel as possible. Like good ol' Deutschland. I bet you wouldn't say the same if Japan tried to push their ways and culture to others because, ya know, they so self-destructive and all that. Everyone else, though, is the magic ticket to Japan's redevelopment and they should take it as if foreigners were god's gift to them.

Suuure, "mongrels" like me, being of heavily mixed ethnic and cultural descent, as well as having lived in different parts of the world, why that's gotta' be "multicultural cool-aid". No way that there could be anything remotely positive about different peoples coming together and sharing in each others culture.

The truth is, whether Japan likes it or not, their culture is going to change. This is true for pretty much any culture anywhere in the world. That's not to say Japan's change needs to happen via multiculturalism, since I was just speaking in support of it in a more general sense. But regardless of how that change happens, in order for Japan to survive as a nation, they'll need to make some adjustments.

. They all either flopped worldwide (Dimension W, Heroman), or the anime that was more popular overseas was unintentional (Samurai Pizza Cats, Kinnikuman).