Why Japan's Population Collapse is WORSE Than You Think

Japan's population collapse is happening so fast, the country could soon be at the "point of no return". What does that mean? I explain in the video. #population #japan #geography

0:00 Intro
0:29 Japan's Population Collapse
2:24 The Story of Kentaro Yokobori
3:29 Japan's Worst Case Scenario
4:10 Reversing Japan's Baby Shortage
5:57 Reversing Tokyo Overpopulation
6:30 Fixing Japan's Labour Force
7:00 Japans' New Immigration Policy
8:09 Fun fact.
8:18 Outro

[laulaja-]

As serious as that population collapse is, the Koreans are doing it even quicker.

[kcjfilms]

I live in Japan. This is the cause of a declining economy. Its a vicious cycle. Culture too.

[gordonallen]

When you have a culture that is more focused on careers and work, instead of people and families, less people will marry, and have children. Japan and other Asian countries are reaping what they've sown.

[andrewcanuck]

Modern societies are all going this way. Maybe we're valuing the wrong things?

[olatunjiabidogun]

90000 people older than 100 years is an astonishing fact!

[gregvanpaassen]

Japan is not alone. All developed countries and east Asian countries have below-replacement fertility, and in most of them it is declining further. When careers are emphasized, and to get one, a person must spend their youth at university, children don't happen.

[WilkinsMichael]

You touched on the cost but you missed the number one reason that is semi hidden. Employment instability. Japanese people especially men used to start work in their early 20s and be pretty much guaranteed to work at the same company for 50 years with steadily increasing wages. Many young people now work at the same companies but as contractors at a much lower salary and without job security. They never have enough money or stability to start a family.

[JM-gjde]

I married a lovely Japanese woman 24 years ago. We have three children together. If the Government of Japan is listening...I did my part in trying to help with your population issues. The pleasure was all mine*)

[IKNFLY]

China’s population started to decrease by 800k in 2022, and a whopping 2 million in 2023, all the while China’s GDP/Capita is still only 10k+, as opposed to to Japan’s 52k. I think China is in a way deeper crisis than Japan; they got old before they got rich.

[PTMcMullen]

The problem is worse than simply lower fertility rates. Childbirth is also being delayed. Having children at 38 rather than at 18 means that not only is the next generation smaller, it is effectively skipping generations.

[jeffreagan]

In addition to promoting people living in villages, the government should provide tax breaks to businesses that allow employees to work remotely. That way, people can live in underpopulated villages and work from home!

[armorbearer]

I feel bad for the disappearing villages. There is so much culture lost to time...

[pcwwfhd]

They are not alone. Italy is disappearing, China did it to themselves intentionally, and Russia is killing off all of its young men. The world is changing, all over. Same problem, different routes taken, same result.

[ian]

So, I'm progressing through JLPT certs, but here in the US I can work a flat 40 hours a week in engineering and go home. If I move to Japan even at a salary match, I feel that I can expect to work 60 hours or more for no gain. I can use Japanese here to benefit my career and company. Japan is really cool with a beautiful language, a rich history and amazing sights to see, but I struggle to realize even with the mindset of adapting to Japanese culture and not bringing my own with expecations for them to change for me, the draw beyond novelty of immigrating my skilled labor with my wife.

[ajeetkumaraks]

Money alone will not help much. Make work life balance a priority so that patents spend time at home with family and basic necessities more affordable and easily accessible. People will only procreate if they have leisure time and money.

[captainpazuzu]

Having spent a fair amount of time in Japan, I would add that there are some problematic cultural dimensions as well. Far fewer Japanese are even getting into relationships. Even if the government gave you 80k for each baby you have, you can't make babies if you're not having sex.

[bytbeauty]

This sounds scary for Japan. Such a paradox with the country’s high life expectancy.

[dheesylvester]

Japan's population issues seem almost similar to China's. 25 years without a child being born in a village is wild though.

[Nobody-iytm]

The global population was 1 billion in 1804. The population exploded to over 8 billion. That was extremely concerning, on which we didn’t talk.

The explosion of the population is the major reason for global warming, ocean acidification, disappearing forests, pollution of the entire earth and extinctions of numerous species.

“Collapse” is a vocabulary of fear mongers. When the population decline slowly till 2100, we can manage the transition. We have lots of technologies to manage it. And it is in our hand, to do it in a socially acceptable and human way.

The last years since pandemic made us clear, that the majority isn’t immune against deception, manipulation and brainwashing. It made us clear, that our greed, laziness and negligence is the real threat.

The USD is “collapsing” ( fear monger alarm :-) right now. And it gives us the chance to reflect on our own thoughts and improve our future.

[williamthomas]

There's more adult diapers sold in Japan than kids diapers.