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They arent having any because they have no representation in politics as their leaders only pander to a out of touch and very self centered older generations. Their working conditions and strict social protocol combined with no money and time for family means it aint fuckin happening. 
Just like the US and other western countries we are too overworked, underpaid, unsupported, not represented and completely disregarded by older generations, the politicians and the businesses and corporations. We(Japan included) dont have time, space or standard of living to support and raise a child especially when neither us nor our kids will be supported as everything deteriorate and the working class is wrung dry for as few scraps as employers can get away with. 
You can panic and urge all you like but unless you address the underlying systemic cause for no one having kids then its not going to change.
Heres a video talking about it
Under loose plans that reportedly won’t be outlined until March, ...

That's all you need to know. It's an article about nothing, wait till the actual policies come out. >

Increase immigration? Nah, "it'll make the country less Japanese."
Raise salaries to pay for nannies or support stay-at-home parents? Nope. "Can't reward those mooches."
Reduce work hours to give more time to raise kids? Hell no, "muh economy!"
Increase childcare benefits and opportunities for young adults? Lol no, "sink or swim!"
Instead, let's just blame the overworked, underpaid, and stagnating parents for not raising more babies, so that the generation in power gets their old-age caretakers, despite giving nothing to the young generation in return.
If your answer to any complaint about life getting more difficult and less rewarding for parents and young adults alike is "you chose to have kids, now you get to raise them", don't complain when the solution young adults take is to simply not have kids. If it means your economy, society, and country has no future, too bad, you brought it upon yourself. >

This is not just happening to Japan. It's pretty much all of East Asia.
There seems to be a mass decision by people in their twenties to remove themselves from society in these places. Not leave the house, not get a job, not go to college -- and certainly not get married and have kids.
It's happening to other countries too. As far as I know I think every western country has a declining population. Hence, immigration, to maintain the numbers.
But the essential question for both sides of the argument is why?
Having lots of kids is not necessarily good for the average person in Japan.
Having largescale immigration is not necessarily good for the average person in Germany. (I'm not saying it's bad. Please don't get excited)
But having a large number of people is good for the government and for all the large corporations they do business with.
That seems to be the only reason why they need to maintain a large population.
We will start to see clear visible signs of the effects of lowering populations in the next few years. Gonna be interesting. >

It happens to essentially all advanced economies. Its mainly that economic pressures and social expectations lead to children being much more expensive for parents. In extremely poor rural areas, children actually have positive economic value to parents >

Yes, I would agree with that. But I think having a family -- and buying a house for the family to live in -- has also become a business model for banks.
If there are fewer people around, that means fewer people buying overpriced houses way out in the suburbs.
How will the banks survive? >

Housing and healthcare should be all subsidized.I honestly want to strangle folk who thought to turn such essential things into business >

Winston Churchill, a man that I wouldn't exactly call a socialist or even a particularly sensible or pleasant person, railed against landlords because they made their money in a way that contributed absolutely nothing to society. This was back in the early 1900s. He pointed out how they just bought up property and expected hefty payments simply because someone dared to live on it, without even bothering to maintain that property, which I'd call the bare fucking minimum. They were reliant on public services like water and gas, but they were the ones that wanted money? They didn't even produce anything!
If his hyper-conservative arse could see it... >

A lot of sci fi predicted a future where humans were sterile. It didn't predict a future where people just didn't want kids. >

Let’s riddle our kids with student debt, price them out of property, depress wages and then wonder why they aren’t having children or spending their time taking care of us.….. lol man, Boomers really are universally arrogant and clueless. >

It’s becoming a global issue >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot)


For all his implied warnings of a dystopian, hollowed-out Japan, Kishida is largely sticking to a script that has already been roundly rejected by young Japanese.
Subsidies for pregnancy, childbirth and childcare have failed, while some experts complain that politicians target parents who already have children while failing to ask themselves why young people are reluctant to start families.
The government says it will provide better support for families with young children, but I don't have much faith in politicians.


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Abenomics at it's finest. Cut worker pay, slash permanent hire, increase temp jobs. >

Don’t forget funneling money into agriculture and rural areas, where the elderly voters are living. 
Abe loved this shit. >

its like every country needs a leader that is a carbon copy of reagan where they funnel all the money to the elderly and blame the young for existing and wanting a chance to live  
and then pump them full of drugs so the elders wont die and leech from society, while the young has to pay for all of it >

I swear the government has told the manga industry to subtly get young people to think about sex and/or marriage a lot.
Cause so many involve young kids falling in love, or wanting sex and I never noticed it till now. >

Darling in the franxx was basically pro child propaganda by the end of it. >

The only homo becomes crippled lol >

Japan is going to get in a hole so bad they can't get out of >

They're already in it. >

Profits before people. Until that changes, there'll be less slaves and peasant laborers work force.
Profits before people is how our economies are arranged, and is not concerned with the next generation, only the greed of the living billionaires. Even the planet's ability to support life is secondary to the profits margins of the billonaire class. >

I fear we'll just end up descending into a twisted 21st century feudalism. You'd think it'd be in their best interests then, to have people churning out more peasant labor. But then, as a consequence, they'd have to improve upon the system they've dug up all into. 
Weird to think that they're genuinely incompetent at replenishing the slave stock. Suppose that means there's a sliver of hope that with the gradual fading of tradition, society has a chance to improve in this instance at least. Or idk, maybe I'm wrong, lmao