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Japan's Baby Drain: With a plummeting birth rate and a rapidly ageing population, Japan is facing an unprecedented population collapse with vast economic, social and political implications. We explore the dangers facing the nation. For similar stories, see: The Ainu's Tense Relationship with Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjBYtYAOsJc Has Japanese Schooling Become Too Rigorous? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS42d4Gizks How Japan Has Quietly Re-Asserted Its Military Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I817cuW3keQ Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/film/5785/japans-baby-drain Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures In bustling Tokyo, there's little sense of an impending crisis, but Japan is facing a demographic time bomb. "Nobody is having babies. The men aren't as hungry for success or for relationships as they were before", says Kaoru Arai. She epitomises the country's new breed of successful and financially independent women that are putting their career first. "I'm picky, yes. I want it all", she smiles. In a desperate move to pull the birth rate back from the brink, the government is offering cash incentives to encourage singles to partner up and procreate. Meanwhile, the elderly are being left behind, with no one to look after them. Japan's seemingly xenophobic reluctance to admit foreign workers means that major companies are now racing to develop robots to help fill the void and support its ageing population. Somewhat desperate measures, which reveal how difficult the problem has become for the government to handle. "This situation cannot continue, we know this very well, but it is still not something that is easily solved." SBS Australia – Ref. 5785 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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WHy are they not having kids?
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Are you guys just re uploading the same videos
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Poor kid all by himself in a class
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Japanese Society will continue to decline until there is a tipping point where those young people at work cannot support the elderly, retired and sick people as they will greatly outnumber the under 30's by 3 or 4 to one. That's when someone else maybe China will move in and take it over. Japan are far in advance of the West as far as this problem is concerned. You only have to look at the demographics in those countries that have less than 2.1 children per family to see there will be an obvious decline over a period of time and once that populations demographics gets below 1.7 children per household, there's no coming back as it could take nearly 100 years to get the population back up to its present level. There has never been a civilization anywhere that's. managed it in 2,000 years before they have been overrun by another civilization.
The second problem is, women. They have veered so far from a role they are perfect for and entered the workplace and are competing with men for the white collared jobs, The workforce has grown and more money has been printed off to pay those extra workers at the expense of those that did want children because it's now to expensive to have one with just one person in the family working. That's because printing off extra money to pump into the economy hasn't doubled the value of yen in the marketplace it's just diluted the yen to half of what it used to be worth just to pay those extra workers entering the market.
The building block of any civilization is the family unit, Dad, Mom and 2.1 children. That way the civilization replaced itself over time. All western countries including Japan and South Korea all have the nuclear family, Mom and child supported by Papa Government handouts from money taxed from men who still pay 70% of income tax. Men have been excluded from the family unit in order for women to vote for bigger government and more free stuff. Men despite what women say are not stupid and can see whats up ahead as they get screwed in the family courts, screwed in the divorce courts, excluded from jobs under positive discrimination and so called quotas, the education system was changed to favor women in the late 70's and there are now 60% or more females at universities doing soft subjects, like women's studies, social science, gender politics but very few going into mining, engineering, fishing, farming, building, manufacturing etc. Men are now thinking why should they sacrifice themselves for a women and children when all the odds are stacked against them in law and the court system and they are tossed out when they usefulness is no longer wanted or required, there thinking fuck the system, fuck the government I'll do what I want for a change, they'll take lower paid temp jobs as they no longer need to earn as much to live like lords for themselves, won't work 80 plus hours a week to buy some woman a house and provide her with all the trappings and furnishing and they get tossed out in the trash when she gets bored and wrung through a ringer and hang out to dry because the government support her all the way as long as they get the vote.
It's happening in all Westernized countries except possibly Russia to a lesser degree. In the 50s a man could work a 40 hour week, get married, but a house, have 2.1 children, a car, a dog and provide everything for his wife to make sure she didn't have to work and raise kids to be proud off. When those children left the family home the wife found a job to help her husband so they both could live a happy retired life together. Completely different case in the West today folks. Toxic Males, Rape culture, Nuclear families, More depression in women then ever, rising mental health issues, Bigger and Bigger government interference in every aspect of your life, from how to take a shit to what you allowed to think and say, race wars just simmering below the surface, corrupt media and politicians telling you what your told is the absolute truth. How far advanced civilization has now sunk in 65 years, just image where it will be in another 20 years, I dread to think.
The good news is that there is one civilization that won't die out. ISLAM. It's the only real transportable ideology on most continents now where the birthrate in their non nuclear sharia extended family's is as high as 5.4 or in some places 8.1 children per family. At least there replacing the dying civilizations out, Can you see the good signs ahead, men back in charge of their families and being the only sole breadwinner. Courts and the law that favor men, lots of low cost mud brick shanty hovels to live in, murder of non-believers being an honorable thing to do, no big government looking over your shoulder telling you what to do, just one bloke and a few imams, very small dictatorship, sorry government, no welfare programs, so sorry if your a single mom, your fucked. One barter system instead of all that worthless paper money that everyone believed had some sort of value, no dogs roaming the streets shitting everywhere and people walking in it. Did I hear you say "HEAVEN", well only if your a Feminist or a Muslim. I'd sooner go extinct. -
The sooner it happens to north America, and Israel the better.
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My wife and I have 7 children,the last 2 in our late 40s through IVF....
Family is life,life is family.... -
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Look at the hospitality they give to the stranger.
That's not unusual in rural Japan and I can tell you from my own experience.
You'll may feel uncomfortable thinking what did I do to deserve this. -
They need a black Mandingo stud !
One healthy black stud, straight off the plantation, can impregnate 1'000, 2'000, even 3'000 Japanese women ! -
By the time the population reaches an alarming level the government will ban all contraceptives and force people to reproduce.
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their population will shrink and they will readjust to the new situation.
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Wasn't this up before?
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Maybe Japan could take some of these REFUGEES off our hands. We'd be much obliged.
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This is an old clip. I watched it on Journeyman before.
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Japanese people need to work less .working only 5 hours have more sex and babies or open the gate to an immigration but not immigrants like brown people from India Pakistan and Arab people but Bangladeshi people are ok .they are hard workers and do not cause trouble they are like Filipino people I prefer them to my country.black yes but not black from africa specially Nigeria .
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If you would prefer a career, donate your fertile eggs/sperm.
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This isn't a problem. The smaller population will protect Japan from unemployment in the future once whilst the rest of the world suffers from chronic unemployment and unrest brought about by technological automation.