Is anyone else still slightly creeped out by the Japanese?
POSTED BY: kpo
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I think it would benefit EVERY nation to publicly acknowledge the atrocities it committed during its history, and to teach it as part of national history.
But, aside from that issue ....
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Japan is a dying nation. Like many highly urbanized societies, it is facing demographic death.
It, and South Korea, have the fourth and fifth lowest birth rates in the world, according to the CIA factbook. I don't know what to attribute that to, except that they were in the vanguard of electronic entertainment. With the S Koreans it's videogames. With Japan its anime and all kinds of weird cultural obsessions with robot dolls.
The Japanese need to reinvograte their economy and their society: Get young people out in the real world doing real things so they stop being part of the hive-mind.
Looking at the demographics of other nations, however, there are clearly other reasons for low birth rates: some if it is due to lack of economic opportunity and emigration by the younger generation.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/birth-rate-by-count
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