Japan will create nursing homes run by Terminators before they ever consider large scale immigration.
I applied for a job in Sendai that I was qualified for in experience except I didn’t have a bachelors degree. My visa was denied because I only have an associates degree. Japan’s immigration laws are goofy.
They did it to themselves. I have no sympathy.
Have they tried making it crushingly difficult for younger people to live? Maybe that will help.
What is happening in Japan and South Korea, EU and US will face 5-10 years from now. Italy is very close to Japan already
Japan can’t even recognized ethnically half-Japanese people as Japanese enough.
There’s no labour shortage in Japan. Only a pay shortage and QoL shortage. They treat the workforce like crap over there. If they paid appropriately they would get plenty of people working there.
In fact it could be argued there’s never a labour shortage, only an employer class that doesn’t want to meet the market. If you can’t afford to meet the market, then do the work yourself.
At least they’ll probably be smart about immigration and avoid the incompetent ways of Canada’s immigration system.
They could fix it at any point no shortage of people that would be willing to move to japan
Japan’s incredible post war population boom stabilizing, shocking!
Good now take some of the Canadian immigrants crisis
I remember seeing Japanese anime titled, “Roujin Z” which was story about advanced robotic AI bed created to care for elderly people (except with a twist)
The anime was made in 1991 so the creator was well aware the future of Japan heading into demographic time bomb.
Maybe if people didn’t spend their youth in cram schools and work 70 hours a week every week they’d have time to make some babies. 🙄
Japanese people can afford to live somewhere. If they brought in a bunch of immigrants, that could change.
I think every developed nation has this problem, albeit not as bad
This trend happens to all developing and developed countries. It’s the fertility vs gdp curve. This trend is seen regardless of culture, geographical location, politics, language, etc. The only country that is an exception is Israel, which has a unique cultural focus on large families, and has stayed at a relatively consistent 3.0 fertility rate for the last 4 decades.
>“I don’t think that’s going to happen, which means that a large portion of that drop in the domestic labor force has to be made up by better productivity of those young people who will remain,” Feldman said.”
“As a result of low birth rates, young people in a country known for death by overwork must be squeezed even harder,” says generic high-functioning business sociopath #86745678
A lot of people have brought up their work culture as the cause, which is definitely true, but that’s not the only cause. Their culture around dating and family also needs a fix.
Hikimori syndrome (or social shut-ins) is still as big of a problem as ever among young Japanese people. And becoming a parent is seen as a huge hinderance not just economically, but socially too thanks to Japan’s obsession with youth.
I fear Japan is ground zero for what the rest of the world will see in the coming decades.
Immigration would solve the problem … oops, I said the wrong thing.
Japan is going to have to allow significant immigration, and this will fundamentally change the country and its people.
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Japan will create nursing homes run by Terminators before they ever consider large scale immigration.
I applied for a job in Sendai that I was qualified for in experience except I didn’t have a bachelors degree. My visa was denied because I only have an associates degree. Japan’s immigration laws are goofy.
They did it to themselves. I have no sympathy.
Have they tried making it crushingly difficult for younger people to live? Maybe that will help.
What is happening in Japan and South Korea, EU and US will face 5-10 years from now. Italy is very close to Japan already
Japan can’t even recognized ethnically half-Japanese people as Japanese enough.
There’s no labour shortage in Japan. Only a pay shortage and QoL shortage. They treat the workforce like crap over there. If they paid appropriately they would get plenty of people working there.
In fact it could be argued there’s never a labour shortage, only an employer class that doesn’t want to meet the market. If you can’t afford to meet the market, then do the work yourself.
At least they’ll probably be smart about immigration and avoid the incompetent ways of Canada’s immigration system.
They could fix it at any point no shortage of people that would be willing to move to japan
Japan’s incredible post war population boom stabilizing, shocking!
Good now take some of the Canadian immigrants crisis
I remember seeing Japanese anime titled, “Roujin Z” which was story about advanced robotic AI bed created to care for elderly people (except with a twist)
The anime was made in 1991 so the creator was well aware the future of Japan heading into demographic time bomb.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z)
There’s been an influx of migrant workers to Japan to make up for the shortage of labour force. And the cultural clashes aren’t pretty.
In response, they’ll make people work even harder, which will lead to people having even fewer children, making the problem even worse.
maybe if japan fix their toxic work culture
I wonder what it would be like to move to Japan…
There’s no labor shortage anywhere. Just PAY UP!
Tyrone Biggums: “Ya’ll got anymore a’them immigrants??”
Canadas kicking some “Grade A” immigrants out. Want them? Commmmme onnnnn!
Maybe if people didn’t spend their youth in cram schools and work 70 hours a week every week they’d have time to make some babies. 🙄
Japanese people can afford to live somewhere. If they brought in a bunch of immigrants, that could change.
I think every developed nation has this problem, albeit not as bad
This trend happens to all developing and developed countries. It’s the fertility vs gdp curve. This trend is seen regardless of culture, geographical location, politics, language, etc. The only country that is an exception is Israel, which has a unique cultural focus on large families, and has stayed at a relatively consistent 3.0 fertility rate for the last 4 decades.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-fertility-rate-vs-level-of-prosperity
Hey man, they wanna homogeneous. Let them.
>“I don’t think that’s going to happen, which means that a large portion of that drop in the domestic labor force has to be made up by better productivity of those young people who will remain,” Feldman said.”
“As a result of low birth rates, young people in a country known for death by overwork must be squeezed even harder,” says generic high-functioning business sociopath #86745678
A lot of people have brought up their work culture as the cause, which is definitely true, but that’s not the only cause. Their culture around dating and family also needs a fix.
Hikimori syndrome (or social shut-ins) is still as big of a problem as ever among young Japanese people. And becoming a parent is seen as a huge hinderance not just economically, but socially too thanks to Japan’s obsession with youth.
I fear Japan is ground zero for what the rest of the world will see in the coming decades.
Immigration would solve the problem … oops, I said the wrong thing.
Japan is going to have to allow significant immigration, and this will fundamentally change the country and its people.