Japan’s birth rate has fallen to unprecedented lows, with just 720,988 babies born in 2024, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline and the lowest number since records began 125 years ago.
The annual death toll has surged to around 1.6 million people, the highest in modern Japanese history outside wartime. Over the next 50 years, approximately 80 million Japanese will die — about two-thirds of the current population.
by SkyInJapan
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How many articles are there actually on this topic a year?
Extinction of a nation, crazy.
I volunteer to come to Japan to live. 👋
I’m married to a Japanese, she doesn’t want to have kids -_00_/-
Lightening their Immigration/naturalization process is the worst thing they can do, or the outcomes will be similar to Canada, Germany or France where the immigrants will not integrate. It’s fine the way it is now. Japan cares more about Integration than anything.
Edit: because people don’t know what Naturalization means and immediately virtue signal by thinking it’s “racist”.
it means learning the customs, language and culture to properly integrate into society – which helps in earning PR/Citizenship.
It’s about Integration, nothing more.
A country that has been dealing with the same problems for 30 years and still can’t do anything about them.
The government ignores the voices of its citizens and experts, while the people have no will to resist authority and shift all the blame onto the vulnerable.
>such as France and Sweden, have implemented comprehensive family support policies, including generous parental leave, accessible childcare, and housing assistance.
Nope. I can speak for France. If ‘we’ have reversed the fertility it is because of African immigrants having more kids than nationals. Call me racist, I don’t care. That’s the truth and I invite everyone saying It’s false coming to where I used to live. Also, the more you do kids, the more you get money from government as our system is waayy to generous.
I’m doing my best, and still going.
I’ll do my part, just tell me what I have to do
No shit that in 50 years, most people older than 45 will be dead.