New research suggests “black holes.” Big cities like central Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka attract young people but have low birthrates.
From rural Japan, this couple moved to Tokyo. They want children but can’t due to the city’s high cost of living. They’ve considered moving but can’t find suitable jobs.
The rising cost of living and childcare are rippling through a lot of developed nations.
Greed at the top sadly, is usually the answer.
>”The nation has entered an era of full-scale population decline… and we might have no choice but to live as a small country.”
No choice? Seems the Japanese would rather see their economy collapse than stop being a xenophobic nation and open their country to immigration.
The Japanese government only recently reluctantly recognized its “Tokyo” problem, and their half-hearted efforts to reverse the decline have failed.
I live in a large Shizuoka city, but a short drive away takes you to small farming communities populated mostly by old people. Their death leaves no one to replace them. Who can blame kids today for not wanting to farm and moving to cities? I see these little communities disappearing in 20-30 years and being abandoned.
Seems to be happening all over the rich world.
Never thought I’d hear the words ‘extinction’ and ‘municipalities’ together..
the young kids love to be a farmer,…..in PS and Switch, sad state of our current life
Japan insists on an ethnostate even as their infrastructure crumbles beneath them. Yay for purity, I guess.
I’ve been into abandoned homes along the northern shore in iceland… owner’s obviously died, and their children, and anyone else for that matter, had zero desire to take them, leaving them to rot. It was my first encounter with seeing, sort of, I don’t know – “the last of a dying breed” in reality. I’m not used to that where I’m from. There’s always value in the home. There’s always someone to replace those who leave. It’s a strange thought to me. Fascinating to witness.
What centralization does to a mfer
It’s so funny they want them to have more kids but it’s so unaffordable people don’t, the billionaires will run dry in the end and wonder what’s happened and why they let that happen, prices to live basic lives are getting way too expensive and something needs to be done about it. Unless it’s just part of the plan.
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New research suggests “black holes.” Big cities like central Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka attract young people but have low birthrates.
From rural Japan, this couple moved to Tokyo. They want children but can’t due to the city’s high cost of living. They’ve considered moving but can’t find suitable jobs.
The rising cost of living and childcare are rippling through a lot of developed nations.
Greed at the top sadly, is usually the answer.
>”The nation has entered an era of full-scale population decline… and we might have no choice but to live as a small country.”
No choice? Seems the Japanese would rather see their economy collapse than stop being a xenophobic nation and open their country to immigration.
The Japanese government only recently reluctantly recognized its “Tokyo” problem, and their half-hearted efforts to reverse the decline have failed.
I live in a large Shizuoka city, but a short drive away takes you to small farming communities populated mostly by old people. Their death leaves no one to replace them. Who can blame kids today for not wanting to farm and moving to cities? I see these little communities disappearing in 20-30 years and being abandoned.
Seems to be happening all over the rich world.
Never thought I’d hear the words ‘extinction’ and ‘municipalities’ together..
the young kids love to be a farmer,…..in PS and Switch, sad state of our current life
Japan insists on an ethnostate even as their infrastructure crumbles beneath them. Yay for purity, I guess.
I’ve been into abandoned homes along the northern shore in iceland… owner’s obviously died, and their children, and anyone else for that matter, had zero desire to take them, leaving them to rot. It was my first encounter with seeing, sort of, I don’t know – “the last of a dying breed” in reality. I’m not used to that where I’m from. There’s always value in the home. There’s always someone to replace those who leave. It’s a strange thought to me. Fascinating to witness.
What centralization does to a mfer
It’s so funny they want them to have more kids but it’s so unaffordable people don’t, the billionaires will run dry in the end and wonder what’s happened and why they let that happen, prices to live basic lives are getting way too expensive and something needs to be done about it. Unless it’s just part of the plan.