I’ve been hearing this narrative for a while now but just recently decided to look into it. Apparently in 2023 only around 700k children were born with a 120 million population. If it was a smaller country with like 4 million people or something this wouldn’t be a issue but I’m genuinely confused as to how 120 million people can’t even f*** enough to have a million kids.

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/number-births-japan-hits-record-low-2023-2024-02-27

For 8 straight years the birth rate has been sliding down

All that hentai and jav means japan has insane number of gooners who's less likely to engage in real s***
Also like 30% of the population are 65+ yo. These people are not gonna contribute to the national birth rate

Combined with the worldwide effect where almost everywhere the birth rate is declining

bc nobody leaves their house lol

The idea that Japan’s birth rate is extraordinarily low is an old meme, the combination of Japan/East Asia being ahead of the curve on fertility/population decline, and the popular conception of Japan as “weird” - already multiple posts in this thread implying it is due to special Japanese cultural/social factors. In fact, today Japan has the same birth rate as Spain, Ukraine, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Italy, and Jamaica, a higher birth rate than China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea, and is just below Portugal, Greece, Finland, and Mauritius. Clearly, then it’s not a problem specific to certain countries, parts of the world, or cultures - places like Spain are almost diametrically opposed to East Asia in terms of cultural norms and social forces. Soon, the United States will have a similar birth rate, so I’d question whether a declining fertility rate or even a slow, natural population decline is bad - certainly, as Japan shows having experienced it for longer, it’s not disastrous.

Very conservative and sexist society that basically s***s on women that have children

the population of some of those countries isnt as high as japans so not sure why they being brought up lol

if they start paying foreigners to come and rise their birthing rate imma be first in line

Literally 90% of the countries are sexist and conservative and there are plenty who have way higher birth rates

Yea Jamaica has like 2-3 million people tops

Conservative and Openly Xenophobic to foreigners.

Birth rate not number of births

But in a different way lol

758,631 babies with a 5.1% decrease from last year

Yes and while of course there are far fewer children born in Jamaica, when you take into account its much lower population, it is at a similar proportion of births to people as Japan

anime

This guy had to explain percentages

trend is just early in Asia and parts of Europe will spread West than all over the world

already is

has to do with people moving into major cities where having a kid is a burden among other things

They advanced too much in their Hentai evolution

This.

Women aren’t interested in living the lifestyles of their mothers

Same thing happening in Korea

Japan in most aspects according to a lot of experts has always been stagnating since the 90s

There’s little change, work culture is harsh, domestic lifestyle isn’t very fulfilling — people are depressed and not wanting to continue on the trend

They don’t be f***in enough

US suicide rate higher than Japan this year for the first time ever

Japan is just 30 years ahead the rest of world people will see in time

Japan is just a very extreme example of mass industrializations, rapid mobilizing economy that crashed very hard. Society followed suite.

US is more of a slow moving massive aircraft carrier that’s sinking compared to Japan which crashed and burned — currently trying to cry out the hole

US decline probably will mirror the Ottoman or Roman empires than something like Japan

misogyny. women don’t want to have children with the way they’ve been treated. if my daughter could be the victim of revenge p*** just for using the public restroom i wouldn’t want kids either.